| NOUN | cognition | sensory system, modality, sense modality | a particular sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| body | sensory system | the body's system of sense organs |
| Meaning | A particular sense. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | modality, sense modality | |
| 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 |
| Meaning | The body's system of sense organs. | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of | body, organic structure | The entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being) |
| Parts | olfactory nerve, nervii olfactorii, first cranial nerve | A collective term for numerous olfactory filaments in the nasal mucosa |
| sense organ, sensory receptor, receptor | An organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation | |
| Narrower | auditory system | The sensory system for hearing |
| vestibular apparatus, vestibular system | organs mediating the labyrinthine sense | |
| visual system | The sensory system for vision | |
| Broader | system | A group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts |
| Spanish | sistema sensorial | |
| Catalan | sistema sensorial | |
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