| NOUN | cognition | exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body |
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| Meaning | 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 |
| 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 |
| Adjectives | exteroceptive | of or relating to exteroception |
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