sensorium
Americannoun
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a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
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the sensory apparatus of the body.
noun
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the area of the brain considered responsible for receiving and integrating sensations from the outside world
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physiol the entire sensory and intellectual apparatus of the body
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Etymology
Origin of sensorium
First recorded in 1640–50; from Late Latin sēnsōrium, equivalent to Latin sent(īre) “to discern by the senses, perceive, feel” + -ōrium noun suffix of location. See -ory 2
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ORWELL: In the same way that your perspective is limited to the collected perceptions of your sensorium.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023
It could even augment our sensorium by adding new modalities like echolocation and magnetoreception.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2022
Real human touch is infinitely subtle and intricate – less a sense than a sensorium.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2021
A direct message like this, beamed from another person’s sensibility into your own sensorium, isn’t meant to be shared.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2019
The light acts upon a sensitive surface where molecular structure is broken up, and this disturbance is in the presence of nerve terminals, and the sensation is not in the eye but in the sensorium.
From The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena by Dolbear, A. E. (Amos Emerson)
This state of wondering paralysis cries out for criticism, which promises to sort through the glut, to assist in the formation of choices, to act as gatekeeper to our besieged sensoria.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2016
A cochlear implant sounds useful,” wrote SRSwain from Costa Rica. ”A spinal cord bypass to operate prosthetic limbs, or superacute hearing and vision, but magical transformation of memories and sensoria: No thanks.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013
To be transmuted into the sensoria of forty different nasty carrion crows, besides two or three foxes, and a large black beetle!
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Kingsley, Charles
The more advanced patient penetrates the sensoria of those around her, and knows their thoughts and all the folds of their characters.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
During the hot night my ears, strained to every sound, had been almost painfully troubled; as though my brain or sensoria were in anxious touch with them.
From The Jewel of Seven Stars by Stoker, Bram
Brutes and men have their sensoriola, or little sensoriums, by which they apprehend the presence, and perceive the actions, of a few objects that lie contiguous to them.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by Boswell, James
Brutes and men have their sensoriola, or little sensoriums, by which they apprehend the presence and perceive the actions of a few objects that lie contiguous to them.
From The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various
Brutes and men have their sensoria, or little sensoriums, by which they apprehend the presence and perceive the actions of a few objects that lie contiguous to them.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton
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