Definition of Sensory

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Sensory

Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

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Sensory Quotations

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
Temple Grandin

Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
Temple Grandin

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.
Peter Steele

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
Samuel Alexander

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Samuel Alexander

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.
Laurell K. Hamilton

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.
Michael Shermer

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.
Gil Kane

Sensory Translations

sensory in German is Sinnes
sensory in Spanish is sensorial, sensorio

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