Meaning of sensorium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The entire sensory apparatus of an organism.
2. The central part of a nervous system that receives and coordinates all stimuli.
3. The brain or mind in relation to the senses.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“The continuum is broken, and the rise⟳ of writing helps to break⟳ up as well the continuum of the sensorium, to locate⟳ consciousness in the written word. What the written word is to the sensorium, the ego is to the entire consciousness, and the city is to the entire encirclement of nature.”

“[…]in all injuries of the spine whereby a communication with the sensorium is cut⟳ off, it is the parts below the injury which are deprived of sensation, while those above retain⟳ their sensibility.”

“Others have⟳ conſidered infinite Space as the Receptacle, or rather the Habitation of the Almighty : But the nobleſt and moſt exalted Way of conſidering this infinite Space is that of Sir Iſaac Newton, who calls it the Senſorium of the Godhead. 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.”

“The ringing of the bell and the rap upon the door, ſtruck likewiſe ſtrong upon the ſenſorium of my uncle Toby,—but it excited a very different train⟳ of thoughts ;—the two irreconcileable pulſations inſtantly brought Stevinus, the great engineer, along with them, into my uncle Toby’s mind⟳[…]”

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