English > sensory faculty: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The faculty through which the external world is apprehended. |
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| Synonyms | sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency |
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| Narrower | modality, sense modality, sensory system | A particular sense |
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| sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli |
| Broader | faculty, mental faculty, module | One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind |
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| Spanish | facultades sensoriales, sentido, sentidos |
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| Catalan | facultats sensorials, sentit, sentits |
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