sensorium
Americannoun
plural
sensoriums, sensoria-
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
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
Example Sentences
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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
Hypnotism attacks the real origo mali;—not, indeed, the pressure on the tooth-nerve, which can only be removed by extraction, but the representative power of the central sensorium which converts that pressure for us into pain.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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