Definition of sensorium in English:
sensorium
nounPlural sensoria, Plural sensoriums sɛnˈsɔːrɪəmsɛnˈsɔriəm
The sensory apparatus or faculties considered as a whole.
virtual reality technology directed at recreating the human sensorium
Example sentencesExamples
- Patients with alcoholic hallucinosis experience visual, auditory, or tactile hallucinations but otherwise have a clear sensorium.
- Can we imagine extending our sensoria and expanding our consciousness to include the dusk of flora?
- Over the next two days her confusion continued to diminish and she again returned to her baseline sensorium of completely intact cognitive function.
- Although tragically limited, these very limits of theoretical insights do not impinge in any way on the full beauty of experience: experience can outstrip mere information because it always plays through our complete sensorium.
- She enlarges perceptively upon the primacy of the visual in the shifting sensorium of the modern urban subject, though we still need more appreciation of other neglected dimensions, notably of sound and touch.
Derivatives
adjective sɛnˈsɔːrɪəlsɛnˈsɔriəl
Relating to sensation or the senses.
Example sentencesExamples
- As defined by Freud, a symbol is sensorial and concrete in itself, although the idea it represents may be relatively abstract and complex.
- What seems to be at the heart of an affective and sensorial cinema is time: an everyday time that provokes an often anxious affective experience for both the performer and the viewer.
- The person in trance is wholly involved in the imagery or sensorial experience of the moment.
adverbsɛnˈsɔːrɪəlisɛnˈsɔriəli
I want to argue that entertainment spectacles of the last two decades are reliant on a baroque perceptual regime that sensorially engages the spectator in ways that recall baroque art forms of the seventeenth century.
Example sentencesExamples
- Rather, one works as a sensorially engaged participant, opening many paths to knowledge and understanding.
- These rooms have been previously used in various ganzfeld experiments and consist of a sensorially shielded room where participants are located.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin, from Latin sens- 'perceived', from the verb sentire.