exteroception
English Thesaurus
1. sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body (noun.cognition)
| hypernym | : | sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, |
| definition | : | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense, |
| definition | : | the ability to see; the visual faculty (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality, |
| definition | : | the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing, |
| definition | : | the ability to hear; the auditory faculty (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste, |
| definition | : | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth (noun.cognition) |
| hyponym | : | olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell, |
| definition | : | the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents (noun.cognition) |
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