English Explanatory Dictionary

sensory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of the physical senses or sensation.
  2. Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers.
noun
  1. The sensorium.
  2. An organ or faculty of sense.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sensory.wav /ˈsen.sə.ɹi/

Word forms

sensory sensoric sensories

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -tōriusder. Middle English -orie English -ory English sensory From sense + -ory.

Synonyms

sensely sensible sensory sensual sensuous sensatory sensorial afferent

Related words

sensible sensual sensuous

Derived words

audiosensory autonomous sensory meridian response biosensory bisensory chemosensory dual sensory impaired electrosensory extrasensory genitosensory hemisensory hygrosensory intersensory laterosensory magnetosensory mechanosensory metabosensory monosensory multisensory neurosensory nonsensory orosensory osmosensory parasensory photosensory polysensory prosensory psychosensory sensori- sensorily sensoriness sensorineural sensoriperceptual sensori-volitional sensory bin sensory dep sensory deprivation sensory garden sensory gating sensory hypersensitivity sensory memory sensory neuron sensory overload sensory play sensory processing sensitivity sensory recall sensory receptor sensory root somatic sensory cortex somatosensory subsensory supersensory suprasensory thermosensory trisensory unisensory unsensory viscerosensory visuosensory Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis Wartenberg's migratory sensory neuropathy
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