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