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Meaning of Sensory | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈsɛn.sə.ɹi

Definitions

  1. The sensorium.
  2. An organ or faculty of sense.

Equivalents

Afrikaans sensories
العربية حسي حِسِّيَّة
Català sensori sensorial
Čeština smyslový
Ελληνικά αισθητήριος
Español sensorial sensorio
Français sensoriel
Italiano sensoriale
Português sensorial
Română senzorial
Türkçe duyumsal duyusal

Examples

“Is not the Senſory of Animals that place to which the ſenſitive Subſtance is preſent, and into which the ſenſible Species of Things are carried through the Nerves and Brain, that there they may be perceived by their immediate preſence to that ſubſtance ?”
“BOth of them ſpread themſelues in Round, and fill a whole Floare or Orbe, vnto certaine Limits : and are carried a great way : And doe languiſh and leſſen by degrees, according to the Diſtance of the Obiects from the Senſories.”
“Dr. Burnet, late Bishop of Sarum, on 4 Heb. v. 13, anatomically describing the texture of the eye[…]so God who made this sensorie, did with the greatest ease and at once see all that was don thro’ the vast universe, even to the very thought as well as action.”

CEFR level

C2
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