extensity
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By extensity is meant the space-differences of sensations.
From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert
It will be found that form is essentially extended, inseparable as it is from the extensity of the becoming which has materialized it in the course of its flow.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
Mere increase of pressure implies increase of intensity of sensation; to increase the extensity the area, so to speak, of the exciting stimulus must be increased.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
The Attributes of Sensation.—Sensations differ from each other in at least four respects; namely, quality, intensity, extensity, and duration.
From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert
Hence is derived the coloured presentation of Vision to which the character of extensity attaches.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander