Sensory
/ˈsensəri/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjectiveRelated to seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, or smelling.
Extra definitions
adjectiveRelating to physical senses.
adjectiveInvolving sight, hearing, or touch.
adjectiveReceived through sense organs.
Sentence Examples
The museum offers a sensory experience.
Sensory information reaches the brain.
The therapy uses sensory activities.
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Word Origin & History
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
“The Species of things are perceived rather there whereto they are carried. But every ſenſory Nerve each in its place carries the Species to the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow, and therefore each in their place are judged and received by the Soul, in the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow.”
— 1665, Thomas Bartholin, chapter VI, in anonymous translator, Bartholinus Anatomy, London: Nich. Culpeper and Abdiah Cole, translation of Anatomia (in New Latin), page 142:
“It is evident that in the ancestor of these two groups the first pair of appendages became early adapted for purely sensory purposes, and were naturally projected far in advance of the mouth, forming the antennæ.”
— 1873, Alpheus Spring Packard, “Hints on the Ancestry of Insects”, in Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, Salem: Naturalists’ Agency, page 174:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum offers a ____ experience.