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▪ I. sensory, n.|ˈsɛnsərɪ|
[ad. L. sensōrium: see prec. and -ory1.]
†1. An organ of sense. Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §255 Visibles, and Audibles doe..languish and lessen by degrees, according to the Distance of the Obiects from the Sensories. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 21 That we all have double Sensories, two Eyes, two Ears, two Nostrils, is an effectual Confutation of this Atheistical Sophism. 1714Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. iii. (ed. 2) 123 The Bone..serves..as a substantial Guard to the Sensory [of the Ear].
fig.1681J. Scott Chr. Life i. iv. §4 (1684) 317 These heavenly Graces are the Palate by which the immortal Mind tastes..its Heaven, the blessed Organs and Sensories by which it feels..the Joys of the World to come.
2. = sensorium. Also common sensory or † first sensory.
1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 216 The irrigation of the brain, and of the first sensory, that is the obstruction of the common sense of the organs, indicates the Form. 1681Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Sensory, the organ of feeling, or of discriminating by the senses; the common sensory or seat of such organ, placed in the brain. 1689Norris Reas. & Relig. ii. ii. 188 These Species are carried by the external Senses to the common Sensory. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 78 ⁋2 Uneasiness gives way by slow degrees, and is long before it quits its possession of the sensory. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlv. 234 The agent between the common sensory and the sense is the consciousness or perception of the impression. 1822–29Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 195 The general bustle and hilarity..break the sturdy chain of habit and association, and give leisure to the worn-out sensory to refresh itself. 1882H. Calderwood in Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 36 Three distinct cognitive faculties—the sensory, the understanding, and the reason.
3. Psychol. A person in whom sensation supposedly dominates over action. rare.
1902,1929[see motor n. 2 c].
▪ II. sensory, a.|ˈsɛnsərɪ|
[ad. L. type sensōrius: see prec. and -ory2.]
1. Belonging to sensation; carrying or transmitting sensation.
1749Hartley Observ. Man i. 58 Sensory Vibrations. 1763Phil. Trans. LIV. 184 These nerves are equally motory and sensory. 1799Sir H. Davy in Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. (1799) 21 The sensory organs. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 279/1 The lower sensory ganglia, which receive all sensory impressions in the first instance. 1886Gurney, etc. Phantasms of Living I. 537 A dim and shadowy idea, when once it obtains a lodgment in the mind, may body itself forth as a sensory phantasm.
2. Special collocations: sensory aphasia Path., aphasia evidenced by impaired speech, memory, writing, or reading which is due to cerebral defect or injury affecting comprehension or the ability to integrate incoming acoustic information, and freq. differentiated from incapacities deriving from motor defects; sensory deprivation Psychol., the act or process whereby an organism is deprived of stimulation affecting one or more of the sense organs; the state or condition produced by such deprivation; sensory-motor a. = sensori-motor a. s.v. sensori-.
1884Brain VI. 401 The author [sc. Wernicke] also makes good use of the phenomena of the different forms of aphasia, which he divides into motor, conductive, *sensory, and total aphasia. 1926H. Head Aphasia I. ii. iii. 202 ‘Sensory’ aphasia, or amnesia, was divided into ‘visual’ and ‘auditory’. 1959Psychol. Rev. LXVI. 46/2 It is significant that with careful study of even a small number of patients, the traditional dichotomy between motor and sensory aphasia began to disappear. 1976E. D. Mysak Path. Speech Syst. iii. 85 Sensory aphasia [is reported] with tumors in the left parietal region.
1948D. Bakan Investig. Effect of Sensory Deprivation on Stall Perception i. 4 What is the effect of *sensory deprivation on the accuracy with which the pilot can detect the edge of the stall proper. 1961S. Cobb in P. Solomon et al. Sensory Deprivation p. xviii, The symptoms of the deprived child with ‘atypical’ and ‘autistic’ reactions are without doubt related to the phenomena seen in adults after experimental sensory deprivation. 1978O'Connor & Hermelin Seeing & Hearing & Space & Time v. 65 Sensory deprivation, especially of audition, appears to decrease duration.
1957Menon & Patel Teaching of Eng. as Foreign Lang. xi. 125 Spelling is a *sensory-motor habit acquired by motor responses to certain sensory stimuli.
Hence ˈsensorily adv.
1925E. Sitwell Poetry & Criticism 20 Though it seems to us as though we heard them sensorily, yet the sound is unheard in reality. 1949M. Mead Male & Female i. 17 Needs..for continuous contact with one sensorily identifiable human being throughout the first two years of life. 1954Essays in Criticism IV. 313 Mill's attempt to define poetry as something not heard but overheard..is successful..in so far as it removes the sensorily ascertainable audience and replaces it with a mysterious audience.
▸ sensory overload n. orig. Psychol. overstimulation of one or more of the senses; the state or condition produced by this; now often used hyperbolically.
1959Science 23 Jan. 222/2 Are there common factors in sensory deprivation, sensory distortion and *sensory overload? 1979E. Fromm in E. Fromm & R. E. Shor Hypnosis iv. 85 By means of the motor activity, the ego attempts to deal with the sensory overload and to prevent being overwhelmed by it. 1995Irish Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. 12 The album is a sensory overload of urgent beats, skewered guitars, tranced out loops and inventive tunes. 2003U.S. News & World Rep. 2 June 27/2 So-called stress-and-duress techniques..have also come under fire from human-rights groups. The tactics range from sensory overload..to sleep deprivation. |