sensorium
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- noun
- /sɛnˈsɔːrɪəm/
- Specialized
:
sensorio
- This article presents an alternate narrative of Wendat steam rituals that reflects spatial awareness, temporal awareness, and the Western sensorium.
They let you see this world in terms of the the over world and so you could and they they don't just affect your your vision, they affect like all your sensorium.
- They let you see this world in terms of the the over world and so you could and they they don't just affect your your vision, they affect like all your sensorium.
Examples
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Omitted from the sensorium, kinesthesia is nonetheless a primary means by which we know, engage with, and make sense of the world.
Academic text (2009) -
This essay explores an underrepresented area of anthropological analysis: aroma, the least appreciated of all senses on the cultural sensorium.
Academic text (1999) -
"It is merely a product of the sensorium, which provides input to the seat of consciousness.
Fiction book (2002) -
But what is like a shadow flickers across the sensorium, and you recognize that shadow, even though it has no voice.
Blog text (1) -
As part of the sensorial field of steam lodge rituals, I address the five senses that are traditionally referred to as the Western sensorium: sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch.
Academic text (2017) -
I daresay that a lifetime of preoccupation with a foreign area among my colleagues may have begun with just such a jolt to the sensorium.
Academic text (2001) -
An olfactory ethnographic project contributes to rethinking empirical paradigms by taking into account our ambiguous but crucial sensorium.
Academic text (1999) -
The sensory modalities of the Western sensorium provide a partial construction of the sensorial environment of steam rituals, but senses linked to pain, temporal awareness, and spatial awareness were also actively engaged.
Academic text (2017) -
Moving away from epistemology and closer to experientiality—a word I use to describe a self-orientation and relation to others that is primarily informed by the sensorium—I approach
Academic text (2016) -
The sensorium is responsible for how we perceive touch, taste, and sound in our environment.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sensorium comes from the Latin root sens- meaning 'feel' or 'sense' and the ending -orium meaning 'place'. Think of it as the brain's 'place for sensing' — the same root is in English sense and sensor, so sensorium means the parts of the brain that let you consciously feel sights, sounds and touch.