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sensate

sensate

9.7
Able to feel things through the senses
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɛnseɪt/
translation icon : sensible
  • Idealistic cultural periods thus tend to attain the highest and noblest expressions of both ideational and sensate styles, producing balance, integration, and aesthetic fulfillment in art, philosophy, science, and technology.

Though terror and fear are your children, You preside over the sensate particularity of creation and so over every shape in the world.

Examples

  • The sensate experience of the concert left the audience mesmerized by the music and lights.

  • Though terror and fear are your children, You preside over the sensate particularity of creation and so over every shape in the world.

    Harvard University

  • "The robot I'm working on will be two-armed, mobile, sensate, and articulate.

    Blog text (10)

  • He then compared the contours of the earth to a human body, evoking a living, sensate landscape, and concluded, "Marin has experienced his subject with depth, insight, and feeling... he has a universal comprehension of his essential detail."

    Academic text (2003)

  • In the warm sunlight, she felt truly sensate, aware of every touch and sound around her.

  • After a long hike, he sat down to enjoy the sensate beauty of the nature surrounding him.

Synonyms

sensitive
vssensate
217 2.7

Able to feel small physical changes, pain, or touch

is simply able to perceive basic physical sensations not quick reaction or emotional hurt
sentient
vssensate
37 7.9

Able to feel or notice things around it

is limited to physical sensing without implying consciousness

Antonyms

insensate
1 9.9

Having no feeling in body or mind and no pity

How Sensitive

sensitive
217 2.7
sensate
9.7
numb
57 3.1

Surface Forms

sensate positive

Morphology

sensate = sense (transparent) = sens + ate

The word 'sensate' is transparently derived from 'sense' with the suffix '-ate', indicating the ability to perceive or feel.

Etymology

Sensate comes from the Latin root sent- meaning 'to feel', and you can see the same root in sense and sensitive. So sensate describes something that has physical feeling or can perceive things with the senses.