adjective
sensory
SEN-suh-ree/ˈsensəri/
Relating to perception through the senses.
Seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling provide different kinds of sensory information.
Etymology
The root “perceive, feel” places sensory on the receiving side of experience: it describes the bodily senses and the processes that convey sensations.
In context
a lack of sensory details good writing should appeal to all the senses sight sound smell taste and touch
More examples
- Sensory nerves carry information from your skin to your brain.
- The museum offers sensory activities that involve touching different materials.
- Losing her sense of smell changes her sensory experience of food.
Forms
sensory
sense noun — A bodily faculty for perceiving stimuli.
Similar words
- perceptual
- Emphasizes how the brain interprets information from the senses.
- sensuous
- Emphasizes pleasure from the senses, often suggesting physical enjoyment.