INTEROCEPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interoception mean? 

• INTEROCEPTION (noun)
  The noun INTEROCEPTION has 1 sense:

1. sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body

  Familiarity information: INTEROCEPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTEROCEPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("interoception" is a kind of...):

sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interoception"):

proprioception (the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts)

somaesthesia; somaesthesis; somataesthesis; somatesthesia; somatic sense; somatic sensory system; somatosensory system; somesthesia; somesthesis (the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs)