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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

We have before said that the vehement excitement of continued swift riding produces a paroxysm in the sensorium amounting to delirium.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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

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 Stoker, Bram

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 Kingsley, Charles

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 Moore, John Hamilton

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 Moore, John Hamilton

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 Boswell, James




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