sensory faculty

Found in thesaurus: module, faculty, mental faculty

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sensory faculty

sensory faculty
n : the faculty through which the external world is apprehended [syn: sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency]





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sensory faculty

Noun
1. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"
(synonym) sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency
(hypernym) faculty, mental faculty, module
(hyponym) modality, sense modality, sensory system