SENSORY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensory system mean? 

• SENSORY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun SENSORY SYSTEM has 2 senses:

1. a particular sense

2. the body's system of sense organs

  Familiarity information: SENSORY SYSTEM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSORY SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A particular sense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

modality; sense modality; sensory system

Hypernyms ("sensory system" is a kind of...):

sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency (the faculty through which the external world is apprehended)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sensory system"):

sight; vision; visual modality; visual sense (the ability to see; the visual faculty)

somatosense (any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain)

audition; auditory modality; auditory sense; hearing; sense of hearing (the ability to hear; the auditory faculty)

gustation; gustatory modality; sense of taste; taste (the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth)

olfaction; olfactory modality; sense of smell; smell (the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The body's system of sense organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("sensory system" is a kind of...):

system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)

Meronyms (parts of "sensory system"):

receptor; sense organ; sensory receptor (an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation)

first cranial nerve; nervii olfactorii; olfactory nerve (a collective term for numerous olfactory filaments in the nasal mucosa)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sensory system"):

auditory system (the sensory system for hearing)

visual system (the sensory system for vision)

vestibular apparatus; vestibular system (organs mediating the labyrinthine sense; concerned with equilibrium)

Holonyms ("sensory system" is a part of...):

body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))

 Context examples 

The process of producing an internal, conscious image through stimulating a sensory system; it involves the recognition that stimulation has occurred, and the ability to discriminate various aspects of the stimulus.

(Perception, NCI Thesaurus)