sensory

Definition of sensory

Adjectives

of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
"sensory neurons"
Synonyms:
centripetal, receptive
afferent
of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS
involving or derived from the senses
"sensory experience"
"sensory channels"
Synonyms:
sensorial
Antonyms:
extrasensory
seemingly outside normal sensory channels
paranormal
clairvoyant
perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
telegnostic
obtaining knowledge of distant events allegedly without use of normal sensory mechanisms
telepathic
communicating without apparent physical signals
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relating to or concerned in sensation
"the sensory cortex"
"sensory organs"
Synonyms:
sensational

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Words that contain sensory

extrasensory
 extrasensory perception
 hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
 sensory activity
 sensory aphasia
 sensory deprivation
 sensory epilepsy
 sensory faculty
 sensory fiber
 sensory hair
 sensory nerve
 sensory neuron
 sensory receptor
 sensory system
 somatic sensory system
 somatosensory
 somatosensory system