sensorium
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ORWELL: In the same way that your perspective is limited to the collected perceptions of your sensorium.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023
It could even augment our sensorium by adding new modalities like echolocation and magnetoreception.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2022
Real human touch is infinitely subtle and intricate – less a sense than a sensorium.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2021
A direct message like this, beamed from another person’s sensibility into your own sensorium, isn’t meant to be shared.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2019
Hypnotism attacks the real origo mali;—not, indeed, the pressure on the tooth-nerve, which can only be removed by extraction, but the representative power of the central sensorium which converts that pressure for us into pain.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
This state of wondering paralysis cries out for criticism, which promises to sort through the glut, to assist in the formation of choices, to act as gatekeeper to our besieged sensoria.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2016
A cochlear implant sounds useful,” wrote SRSwain from Costa Rica. ”A spinal cord bypass to operate prosthetic limbs, or superacute hearing and vision, but magical transformation of memories and sensoria: No thanks.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2013
To be transmuted into the sensoria of forty different nasty carrion crows, besides two or three foxes, and a large black beetle!
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley
During the hot night my ears, strained to every sound, had been almost painfully troubled; as though my brain or sensoria were in anxious touch with them.
From The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
But that the impassivity of the sensitive and intellective power is not similar, is evident in the sensoria and in sense.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Brutes and men have their sensoriola, or little sensoriums, by which they apprehend the presence and perceive the actions of a few objects that lie contiguous to them.
From The Illustrated London Reading Book by Various
Brutes and men have their sensoriola, or little sensoriums, by which they apprehend the presence, and perceive the actions, of a few objects that lie contiguous to them.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell
Brutes and men have their sensoria, or little sensoriums, by which they apprehend the presence and perceive the actions of a few objects that lie contiguous to them.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
