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sensorial

sensorial

1 7.4
Describes things that relate to the senses, like sight or touch
  • adjective
  • /sɛnˈsɔr.i.əl/
translation icon : sensorial
  • As a subset of phenomenology, sensorial archaeology addresses questions of past quotidian and ritual practices.
  • sensorial experience
  • sensorial realism
  • sensorial immersion

It's less of a computer and more a storage device itself that has sensorial capacities.

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Examples

  • The healing properties of plants could thus, in principle, be gleaned from their various sensorial attributes: shape, size, aroma, and color.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Many have argued that virtual worlds are compelling to their inhabitants because of the sensorial realism of these worlds.

    Academic text (2010)

  • What is the role of sensorial experience in questions of belief?

  • The engagement of sensorial fields is embedded in social memory and sensory memory.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Participants engaged with unique sensorial fields during steam rituals.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The crowded bodies, the intense chanting, and the heat caused by the rocks resulted in intensified sensorial experiences.

    Academic text (2017)

  • I gained a heightened awareness of the sensorial and material dimensions of both Indigenous ways of connecting with the land and through artifacts.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Vision-based approaches would be an important first step in a more inclusive project on the bodily, multi-sensorial basis of understanding.

    Academic text (2005)

  • While all five senses are engaged in the pikilia of paradise, this sensorial agitation is created by ineffable stimuli.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The sensorial experience of the concert was heightened by the vibrant lights and powerful sounds.

Synonyms

sensory
vssensorial
54 3.8

Relating to what you notice with sight, hearing, taste, touch, or smell

is broader and covers any involvement of sensation not only physical perception
perceptual
vssensorial
  • Specialized
13 6.9

About noticing things with your eyes, ears, or other senses

focuses on basic bodily sensation rather than the process of perceiving
perceptional
vssensorial
7.7

Relating to how someone notices things using the senses

highlights general sensation involvement rather than the active noticing process

Antonyms

insensate
1 9.9

Having no feeling in body or mind and no pity

Surface Forms

sensorial positive

Morphology

sensorial = sense (semi-transparent) = sens + orial

The suffix '-orial' is less common and may not be immediately recognizable to learners.

Etymology

Sensorial comes from the root sens-, which means 'to feel' and is the same root in sense and sensation. So, sensorial describes things that relate to your senses, like touch, sight, or sound.