| NOUN | cognition | sense modality, modality, sensory system | a particular sense |
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| Meaning | A particular sense. | |
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| Synonyms | modality, sensory system | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality | The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | |
| Broader | sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty | The faculty through which the external world is apprehended |
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