SENSORY FACULTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensory faculty mean? 

• SENSORY FACULTY (noun)
  The noun SENSORY FACULTY has 1 sense:

1. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

  Familiarity information: SENSORY FACULTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSORY FACULTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The faculty through which the external world is apprehended

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency

Context example:

in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing

Hypernyms ("sensory faculty" is a kind of...):

faculty; mental faculty; module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)

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

modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)

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