English > sense modality: 1 sense > noun 1, cognitionMeaning | A particular sense. |
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Synonyms | modality, sensory system |
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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 |
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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