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sensorium

[sen-sawr-ee-uhm, -sohr-] / sɛnˈsɔr i əm, -ˈsoʊr- /


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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

Spencer, who could not find a "social sensorium," said that society was conscious only in the individuals who composed it.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park

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

The more advanced patient penetrates the sensoria of those around her, and knows their thoughts and all the folds of their characters.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

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

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

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 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 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




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