sensoryn.

Brit.

/ˈsɛns(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈsɛnsəri/

Forms: 1600s sensorie, 1600s– sensory.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sensorium.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin sensorium sensorium n.; compare -ory suffix¹. Compare earlier sensor n.In later use in senses 1 and 2 probably associated with sensory adj. With common sensory at sense 2 and first sensory at sense 2 compare common sensorium at sensorium n. 1a, first sensorium at sensorium n. 1a, and their Latin models. In sense 3 after sensory adj.; compare earlier motor n. 7.

†1. A sense organ. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sense organ > [noun]

windowc1230

organala1500

sense?1504

sensator1615

sensory1624

sensitory1649

sensatory1673

sense organ1826

sensoriolum1843

1624 A. Logie Cum Bono Deo 64 I hope those may suffice heere ad gustum, yea, and to bring in distaste this their so much boasted-of Succession, with those whose sensorie is not altogether distempered; yea, who are not devoide of the sense of tasting.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §255 Visibles, and Audibles doe..languish and lessen by degrees, according to the Distance of the Obiects from the Sensories.

1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iv. 409 These heavenly Graces are the Palat by which the immortal Mind tasts..its Heaven, the blessed Organs and Sensories by which it feels..the Joys of the World to come.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 21 That we all have double Sensories, two Eyes, two Ears, two Nostrils, is an effectual Confutation of this Atheistical Sophism.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iii. 123 The Bone..serves..as a substantial Guard to the Sensory [of the Ear].

1752 T. Simson Inq. Vital & Animal Actions v. 239 It now remains, that I survey the different sensories, so far as is necessary for our present argument.

1816 tr. E. Swedenborg Arcana Cœlestia (ed. 2) VIII. (Gen. xlviii.) 292 Wherefore also the sensories, as the sensory of sight or the eye, accommodate themselves instantly to all objects according to their quality.

2. More fully common sensory, †first sensory. The organ or part of the brain believed to be the seat of sensation; = sensorium n. 1a. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > as (supposed) seat of faculty > seats of specific faculties

sensorium1613

sensitory1649

sensory1653

sensoriolum1715

respiratory centre1841

Broca1875

writing centre1878

speech-centre1881

heat-centre1884

speech area1885

pleasure centre1892

language area1898

motorium1900

isocortex1934

visceral brain1949

satiety centre1951

limbic system1952

reward cell1956

1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 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.

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Sensory, the orgain of feeling, or of discriminating by the senses; the common sensory or seat of such organ, placed in the brain.

1689 J. Norris Reason & Relig. ii. ii. 188 These Species are carried by the external Senses to the common Sensory.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Emporium, [in Anatomy] the common Sensory of the Brain.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 78. ⁋2 Uneasiness gives way by slow degrees, and is long before it quits its possession of the sensory.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlv. 234 The agent between the common sensory and the sense is the consciousness or perception of the impression.

2012 C. U. M. Smith et al. Animal Spirit Doctr. xi. 174/2 Is the distant ‘common sensory’ within the head perhaps capable of issuing certain commands spontaneously and on a timely basis without the intervention of some sort of remote detection?

†3. Psychology. A person whose mental imagery or processes are principally reliant on sense impressions received passively. Opposed to motor n. 7. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xiv. 347 The shrew-type is defined as possessing an ‘active unimpassioned temperament’. In other words, shrews are the ‘motors’, rather than the ‘sensories’.

1929 J. Adams Everyman's Psychol. vii. 155 Men fall into two classes of sensories and motors... Motors have to receive sense impressions, and sensories have to send out messages leading to actions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sensoryadj.

Brit.

/ˈsɛns(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈsɛnsəri/

Forms: 1600s sensorie, 1700s– sensory.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sensorius.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin sensorius belonging to sensation (a1540) < classical Latin sens- , past participial stem of sentīre to feel (see sentient adj.) + -ōrius -ory suffix². Compare earlier sensory n.

1. Designating the organs of the special senses (sight, hearing, smell, and taste), or any part of the nervous system or of the body involved in the reception, transmission, and processing of sensations, as sensory cell, sensory cortex, sensory nerve, etc. Frequently contrasted with motor adj. 1 or motory adj. 1.sensory receptor: see Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] > conveying sensuous impressions

conveying1592

sensory1651

sensiferous1656

sensitory1712

sensor1840

1651 tr. J. A. Comenius Nat. Philos. Reformed xi. 214 Attention is a considerate receiving of the objects, brought into the sensorie instruments [L. in Sensoria].

1662 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) i. viii. 83/2 Neither doth it hinder, that that is only a sensory Nerve of which the Tongue is here deprived.

1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 184 These nerves are equally motory and sensory.

1799 H. Davy in T. Beddoes Contrib. Physical & Med. Knowl. 21 The sensory organs.

1837 Abstr. Papers Royal Soc. 1830–37 3 394 The author conceives that..the pneumogastric nerve arises both from the involuntary and the sensory tracts.

1874 Proc. Royal Soc. 1873–4 22 231 The whole brain is regarded as divided into sensory and motor regions.

1892 C. C. Van Liew & O. Beyer tr. T. Ziehen Introd. Physiol. Psychol. 156 These numerous sensory cells transmit their excitation further to one other ganglion-cell, a memory-cell.

1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 278 Thus all sensory nerves carry their impulses (as we now call them) to the corpora striata, which Willis repeatedly speaks of as the sensorium commune, the common seat of sensation.

1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs viii. 151 Cardium possesses sensory tentacles..and these are equipped with small but rather complex eyes.

1992 Economist 9 May 122/2 Show a monkey a light, and its sensory cortex will register the light.

2007 Independent 15 May (Extra section) 13/3 The tick uses a sensory structure, called Haller's organ, on the last segment of its first pair of legs to orient itself to suck the blood.

2. Of, relating to, or involved in the physical process of sensation; produced by the process of sensation; producing a sensation. Also (gen.): of or relating to the senses. rare before mid 19th cent.

ΚΠ

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. i. 151 The variety of these sensory Motions being dependent on the variety of Qualities in the Object.

1686 T. Nourse Disc. Nature & Faculties Man xi. 93 By the violence of the Percussion, his Brains were struck out of their former Station into a more convenient Situation, and such as serv'd for the better retention of the sensory Images.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. 58 Sensory Vibrations.

1862 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Apr. 358/1 The presence of the chloroform, like that of any similar morbific agent, must more or less affect all the sensory feelings and psychical manifestations.

1886 E. Gurney et al. 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.

1952 Sci. News 23 63 Histologically, we recognize in the so-called association areas [of the brain] the structures responsible for linking sensory stimuli with motor response.

1990 J. Updike Just Looking 19 These writings are the fruit of just looking, of the pleasures of the eye, which of all our sensory pleasures are the most varied and constant.

2004 J. E. Roeckelein Imagery in Psychol. i. 47 Actual auditory sensory stimulation, such as the pouring of water..or the rumpling of paper.

Compounds

sensory aphasia n. [after German sensorische Aphasie ( C. Wernicke Der aphasische Symptomencomplex (1874) 25] Medicine a form of aphasia in which comprehension of speech is more impaired than production of speech.

ΚΠ

1883 Brain 6 401 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.

1959 Psychol. Rev. 66 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.

1976 E. D. Mysak Pathol. Speech Syst. iii. 85 Sensory aphasia [is reported] with tumors in the left parietal region.

2012 Jrnl. Cognitive Neurosci. 24 781/2 Three patients had transcortical sensory aphasia, with fluent speech but poor comprehension.

sensory deprivation n. a process by which someone is (deliberately) deprived of normal stimulation of one or more senses, esp. as an experimental technique; the state or condition produced by such deprivation.

ΚΠ

1949 D. Bakan Investig. Effect Sensory Deprivation on Stall Perception (PhD. thesis, Ohio State Univ.) i. 4 What is the effect of sensory deprivation on the accuracy with which the pilot can detect the edge of the stall proper.

1978 N. O'Connor & B. Hermelin Seeing & Hearing & Space & Time v. 65 Sensory deprivation, especially of audition, appears to decrease duration.

2005 Guardian 11 Aug. 9/2 As I step out of the anechoic chamber and back into the control room, my sensory deprivation ends.

sensory garden n. a garden or area specially designed to appeal to the senses, with particular consideration for the visually-impaired or otherwise disabled, typically incorporating highly scented, colourful, or edible plants with sculptural and water features.

ΚΠ

1966 N.Y. Times 27 Sept. 49 Nearby will be a ‘sensory garden’, with aromatic plantings for children with faulty eyesight.

1999 Independent (Nexis) 25 Sept. 12 (caption) Toby enjoys the boom and tinkle of the chime bars in the sensory gardens at the RNIB Sunshine House School.

2012 Church Times 29 June 16/1 There are raised beds and a sensory garden, butterfly and bog gardens, hedgehog homes, [etc.].

sensory impairment n. impairment of the function of one or more of the senses; the condition of having such impairment; an impairment of this kind.

ΚΠ

1860 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 17 150 During her stay of ten weeks in the Asylum, she presented no further sign of mental or sensory impairment.

1923 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Jan. 168/1 In disseminated sclerosis,..the most common early form of sensory impairment is loss of the vibrating sensation.

2016 Guardian (Nexis) 27 June The WHS [= World Humanitarian Summit] was not fully accessible for wheelchair users or people with sensory impairments.

sensory-motor adj. = sensorimotor adj. at sensori- comb. form 1b.

ΚΠ

1855 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 15 170 It is broken sleep, sufficient only to recruit the sensory-motor energies of the patient.

1957 T. K. N. Menon & M. S. Patel Teaching of Eng. as Foreign Lang. xi. 125 Spelling is a sensory-motor habit acquired by motor responses to certain sensory stimuli.

2006 G. Buzsáki Rhythms of Brain viii. 216 Repetitive stimulation of intralaminar thalamic nuclei induces the ‘recruiting’ response.., whereas simulation of sensory-motor thalamic nuclei results in an ‘augmenting’ response.

sensory overload n. overstimulation of one or more of the senses; the state or condition produced by this; now often used hyperbolically.

ΚΠ

1958 J. M. Christensen in Human Factors Sept. 5/1 More information is need on the nature of sensory overload.

1979 E. 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.

1995 Irish Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. 12 The album is a sensory overload of urgent beats, skewered guitars, tranced out loops and inventive tunes.

2003 U.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.

sensory receptor n. a specialized nerve ending of a sensory nerve, having the function of responding to a particular type of stimulus; cf. receptor n. 4.

ΚΠ

1907 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 568/1 The swimming-bell of the medusa is only capable of one type of reflex, and the reflex mechanism of sensory receptor, neuro-fibrillary conductor, and muscular effector is accordingly of quite simple construction.

1981 R. N. Hardy Endocrine Physiol. vii. 69 External environmental changes are detected by sensory receptors which send impulses along sensory nerves to the central nervous system, from which appropriate executive commands are sent to effector tissues.

2000 Esquire Jan. 85 A 1986 study..found sensory receptors peculiar to the penis in the glans, the corona..and the frenulum.

sensory world n. the world of sensation; a person's perception or experience of the world through the senses.

ΚΠ

1885 J. Bascom Probl. in Philos. ii. 23 What the thoughtful man..refuses to do, is to take the sensory world in a sensory way, at its own impressional value.

1920 Pedagogical Seminary Sept. 294 The second chapter discusses the development of the baby's sensory world, with its original lack of color, definite shapeliness of objects, etc.

2014 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Sept. (Review section) 6 Contemporary people..suffer from a much poorer sensory world. Ancient foragers lived in the present moment, acutely aware of every sound, taste and smell.

Derivatives

ˈsensorily adv.

ΚΠ

1881 N. Amer. Jrnl. Homœopathy 12 95 After two days conciousness returned, but the whole right side was paralyzed, motorily as well sensorily.

1925 E. Sitwell Poetry & Crit. 20 Though it seems to us as though we heard them sensorily, yet the sound is unheard in reality.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female i. 17 Needs..for continuous contact with one sensorily identifiable human being throughout the first two years of life.

2001 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 19/6 Music in school is modelled on McDonald's: it is cheap, mass-produced and sensorily unchallenging.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sensory
释义	sensoryn. Brit. /ˈsɛns(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈsɛnsəri/ Forms: 1600s sensorie, 1600s– sensory. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sensorium. Etymology: < post-classical Latin sensorium sensorium n.; compare -ory suffix¹. Compare earlier sensor n.In later use in senses 1 and 2 probably associated with sensory adj. With common sensory at sense 2 and first sensory at sense 2 compare common sensorium at sensorium n. 1a, first sensorium at sensorium n. 1a, and their Latin models. In sense 3 after sensory adj.; compare earlier motor n. 7. †1. A sense organ. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > [noun] windowc1230 organala1500 sense?1504 sensator1615 sensory1624 sensitory1649 sensatory1673 sense organ1826 sensoriolum1843 1624 A. Logie Cum Bono Deo 64 I hope those may suffice heere ad gustum, yea, and to bring in distaste this their so much boasted-of Succession, with those whose sensorie is not altogether distempered; yea, who are not devoide of the sense of tasting. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §255 Visibles, and Audibles doe..languish and lessen by degrees, according to the Distance of the Obiects from the Sensories. 1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iv. 409 These heavenly Graces are the Palat by which the immortal Mind tasts..its Heaven, the blessed Organs and Sensories by which it feels..the Joys of the World to come. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 21 That we all have double Sensories, two Eyes, two Ears, two Nostrils, is an effectual Confutation of this Atheistical Sophism. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. iii. 123 The Bone..serves..as a substantial Guard to the Sensory [of the Ear]. 1752 T. Simson Inq. Vital & Animal Actions v. 239 It now remains, that I survey the different sensories, so far as is necessary for our present argument. 1816 tr. E. Swedenborg Arcana Cœlestia (ed. 2) VIII. (Gen. xlviii.) 292 Wherefore also the sensories, as the sensory of sight or the eye, accommodate themselves instantly to all objects according to their quality. 2. More fully common sensory, †first sensory. The organ or part of the brain believed to be the seat of sensation; = sensorium n. 1a. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > as (supposed) seat of faculty > seats of specific faculties sensorium1613 sensitory1649 sensory1653 sensoriolum1715 respiratory centre1841 Broca1875 writing centre1878 speech-centre1881 heat-centre1884 speech area1885 pleasure centre1892 language area1898 motorium1900 isocortex1934 visceral brain1949 satiety centre1951 limbic system1952 reward cell1956 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 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. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Sensory, the orgain of feeling, or of discriminating by the senses; the common sensory or seat of such organ, placed in the brain. 1689 J. Norris Reason & Relig. ii. ii. 188 These Species are carried by the external Senses to the common Sensory. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Emporium, [in Anatomy] the common Sensory of the Brain. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 78. ⁋2 Uneasiness gives way by slow degrees, and is long before it quits its possession of the sensory. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlv. 234 The agent between the common sensory and the sense is the consciousness or perception of the impression. 2012 C. U. M. Smith et al. Animal Spirit Doctr. xi. 174/2 Is the distant ‘common sensory’ within the head perhaps capable of issuing certain commands spontaneously and on a timely basis without the intervention of some sort of remote detection? †3. Psychology. A person whose mental imagery or processes are principally reliant on sense impressions received passively. Opposed to motor n. 7. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xiv. 347 The shrew-type is defined as possessing an ‘active unimpassioned temperament’. In other words, shrews are the ‘motors’, rather than the ‘sensories’. 1929 J. Adams Everyman's Psychol. vii. 155 Men fall into two classes of sensories and motors... Motors have to receive sense impressions, and sensories have to send out messages leading to actions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sensoryadj. Brit. /ˈsɛns(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈsɛnsəri/ Forms: 1600s sensorie, 1700s– sensory. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sensorius. Etymology: < post-classical Latin sensorius belonging to sensation (a1540) < classical Latin sens- , past participial stem of sentīre to feel (see sentient adj.) + -ōrius -ory suffix². Compare earlier sensory n. 1. Designating the organs of the special senses (sight, hearing, smell, and taste), or any part of the nervous system or of the body involved in the reception, transmission, and processing of sensations, as sensory cell, sensory cortex, sensory nerve, etc. Frequently contrasted with motor adj. 1 or motory adj. 1.sensory receptor: see Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] > conveying sensuous impressions conveying1592 sensory1651 sensiferous1656 sensitory1712 sensor1840 1651 tr. J. A. Comenius Nat. Philos. Reformed xi. 214 Attention is a considerate receiving of the objects, brought into the sensorie instruments [L. in Sensoria]. 1662 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) i. viii. 83/2 Neither doth it hinder, that that is only a sensory Nerve of which the Tongue is here deprived. 1765 Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 184 These nerves are equally motory and sensory. 1799 H. Davy in T. Beddoes Contrib. Physical & Med. Knowl. 21 The sensory organs. 1837 Abstr. Papers Royal Soc. 1830–37 3 394 The author conceives that..the pneumogastric nerve arises both from the involuntary and the sensory tracts. 1874 Proc. Royal Soc. 1873–4 22 231 The whole brain is regarded as divided into sensory and motor regions. 1892 C. C. Van Liew & O. Beyer tr. T. Ziehen Introd. Physiol. Psychol. 156 These numerous sensory cells transmit their excitation further to one other ganglion-cell, a memory-cell. 1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 278 Thus all sensory nerves carry their impulses (as we now call them) to the corpora striata, which Willis repeatedly speaks of as the sensorium commune, the common seat of sensation. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs viii. 151 Cardium possesses sensory tentacles..and these are equipped with small but rather complex eyes. 1992 Economist 9 May 122/2 Show a monkey a light, and its sensory cortex will register the light. 2007 Independent 15 May (Extra section) 13/3 The tick uses a sensory structure, called Haller's organ, on the last segment of its first pair of legs to orient itself to suck the blood. 2. Of, relating to, or involved in the physical process of sensation; produced by the process of sensation; producing a sensation. Also (gen.): of or relating to the senses. rare before mid 19th cent. ΚΠ 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. i. 151 The variety of these sensory Motions being dependent on the variety of Qualities in the Object. 1686 T. Nourse Disc. Nature & Faculties Man xi. 93 By the violence of the Percussion, his Brains were struck out of their former Station into a more convenient Situation, and such as serv'd for the better retention of the sensory Images. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. 58 Sensory Vibrations. 1862 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Apr. 358/1 The presence of the chloroform, like that of any similar morbific agent, must more or less affect all the sensory feelings and psychical manifestations. 1886 E. Gurney et al. 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. 1952 Sci. News 23 63 Histologically, we recognize in the so-called association areas [of the brain] the structures responsible for linking sensory stimuli with motor response. 1990 J. Updike Just Looking 19 These writings are the fruit of just looking, of the pleasures of the eye, which of all our sensory pleasures are the most varied and constant. 2004 J. E. Roeckelein Imagery in Psychol. i. 47 Actual auditory sensory stimulation, such as the pouring of water..or the rumpling of paper. Compounds sensory aphasia n. [after German sensorische Aphasie ( C. Wernicke Der aphasische Symptomencomplex (1874) 25] Medicine a form of aphasia in which comprehension of speech is more impaired than production of speech. ΚΠ 1883 Brain 6 401 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. 1959 Psychol. Rev. 66 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. 1976 E. D. Mysak Pathol. Speech Syst. iii. 85 Sensory aphasia [is reported] with tumors in the left parietal region. 2012 Jrnl. Cognitive Neurosci. 24 781/2 Three patients had transcortical sensory aphasia, with fluent speech but poor comprehension. sensory deprivation n. a process by which someone is (deliberately) deprived of normal stimulation of one or more senses, esp. as an experimental technique; the state or condition produced by such deprivation. ΚΠ 1949 D. Bakan Investig. Effect Sensory Deprivation on Stall Perception (PhD. thesis, Ohio State Univ.) i. 4 What is the effect of sensory deprivation on the accuracy with which the pilot can detect the edge of the stall proper. 1978 N. O'Connor & B. Hermelin Seeing & Hearing & Space & Time v. 65 Sensory deprivation, especially of audition, appears to decrease duration. 2005 Guardian 11 Aug. 9/2 As I step out of the anechoic chamber and back into the control room, my sensory deprivation ends. sensory garden n. a garden or area specially designed to appeal to the senses, with particular consideration for the visually-impaired or otherwise disabled, typically incorporating highly scented, colourful, or edible plants with sculptural and water features. ΚΠ 1966 N.Y. Times 27 Sept. 49 Nearby will be a ‘sensory garden’, with aromatic plantings for children with faulty eyesight. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 25 Sept. 12 (caption) Toby enjoys the boom and tinkle of the chime bars in the sensory gardens at the RNIB Sunshine House School. 2012 Church Times 29 June 16/1 There are raised beds and a sensory garden, butterfly and bog gardens, hedgehog homes, [etc.]. sensory impairment n. impairment of the function of one or more of the senses; the condition of having such impairment; an impairment of this kind. ΚΠ 1860 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 17 150 During her stay of ten weeks in the Asylum, she presented no further sign of mental or sensory impairment. 1923 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Jan. 168/1 In disseminated sclerosis,..the most common early form of sensory impairment is loss of the vibrating sensation. 2016 Guardian (Nexis) 27 June The WHS [= World Humanitarian Summit] was not fully accessible for wheelchair users or people with sensory impairments. sensory-motor adj. = sensorimotor adj. at sensori- comb. form 1b. ΚΠ 1855 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 15 170 It is broken sleep, sufficient only to recruit the sensory-motor energies of the patient. 1957 T. K. N. Menon & M. S. Patel Teaching of Eng. as Foreign Lang. xi. 125 Spelling is a sensory-motor habit acquired by motor responses to certain sensory stimuli. 2006 G. Buzsáki Rhythms of Brain viii. 216 Repetitive stimulation of intralaminar thalamic nuclei induces the ‘recruiting’ response.., whereas simulation of sensory-motor thalamic nuclei results in an ‘augmenting’ response. sensory overload n. overstimulation of one or more of the senses; the state or condition produced by this; now often used hyperbolically. ΚΠ 1958 J. M. Christensen in Human Factors Sept. 5/1 More information is need on the nature of sensory overload. 1979 E. 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. 1995 Irish Times (Nexis) 10 Nov. 12 The album is a sensory overload of urgent beats, skewered guitars, tranced out loops and inventive tunes. 2003 U.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. sensory receptor n. a specialized nerve ending of a sensory nerve, having the function of responding to a particular type of stimulus; cf. receptor n. 4. ΚΠ 1907 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 568/1 The swimming-bell of the medusa is only capable of one type of reflex, and the reflex mechanism of sensory receptor, neuro-fibrillary conductor, and muscular effector is accordingly of quite simple construction. 1981 R. N. Hardy Endocrine Physiol. vii. 69 External environmental changes are detected by sensory receptors which send impulses along sensory nerves to the central nervous system, from which appropriate executive commands are sent to effector tissues. 2000 Esquire Jan. 85 A 1986 study..found sensory receptors peculiar to the penis in the glans, the corona..and the frenulum. sensory world n. the world of sensation; a person's perception or experience of the world through the senses. ΚΠ 1885 J. Bascom Probl. in Philos. ii. 23 What the thoughtful man..refuses to do, is to take the sensory world in a sensory way, at its own impressional value. 1920 Pedagogical Seminary Sept. 294 The second chapter discusses the development of the baby's sensory world, with its original lack of color, definite shapeliness of objects, etc. 2014 Guardian (Nexis) 6 Sept. (Review section) 6 Contemporary people..suffer from a much poorer sensory world. Ancient foragers lived in the present moment, acutely aware of every sound, taste and smell. Derivatives ˈsensorily adv. ΚΠ 1881 N. Amer. Jrnl. Homœopathy 12 95 After two days conciousness returned, but the whole right side was paralyzed, motorily as well sensorily. 1925 E. Sitwell Poetry & Crit. 20 Though it seems to us as though we heard them sensorily, yet the sound is unheard in reality. 1949 M. Mead Male & Female i. 17 Needs..for continuous contact with one sensorily identifiable human being throughout the first two years of life. 2001 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 19/6 Music in school is modelled on McDonald's: it is cheap, mass-produced and sensorily unchallenging. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1624adj.1651
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