sense experience
- noun
- /sɛns ɪkˈspɪərɪəns/
:
experiencia sensorial
- During the meditation, he became aware of his sense experience as he focused on the sounds around him.
Examples
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Pye's account of particular sensations—the sunbeams on Sadler's head, for instance—demonstrates how fancy sympathetically relays sense experience across distances.
Academic text (2017) -
In this sense, memory refers to the mind's ability to retain information gathered on the basis of sense experience and to restore it to consciousness if need be, not to the process of recollecting the eternal, incorporeal notions of logic, number, and goodness essential to the pursuit of wisdom.
Academic text (2007) -
We seek to understand a given sense experience.
Academic text (1994) -
What these machines revealed was the constructedness of human sense experience.
Academic text (2017) -
In summing up these initial remarks on the nature of Augustine's theory of the imagination, it is important to note Augustine's emphasis on the close relation between the imagination and sense experience.
Academic text (2007) -
The mind's reaching out for analogies to assign to the clouds exposes the work of fancy, which shuttles between sense experience and the inner life of the mind.
Academic text (2017) -
Augustine's conception of the imagination is inextricably bound up with his understanding of memory and the role that memory plays in storing, reproducing, and arranging the images generated in it on the basis of sense experience.
Academic text (2007) -
Among the qualities are such things as color, sound, scent, and so on, that are intertwined with sense experience, but whose full reality transcends the sensible givens—as any lover of art knows.
Academic text (1992) -
As I came to conscious awareness, the sense experience of the beeping gradually coalesced into a range of possible intelligible explanations for the sound: it could be the phone, a medical beeper, my alarm clock, or the smoke detector.
Academic text (1994) -
The child described her sense experience of tasting chocolate for the first time.
Synonyms
137
3.5
A feeling in your body from touch, pain, or heat
1
9.9
A simple immediate experience from seeing, hearing, or touching before the mind interprets it
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7.2
An experience you get through your senses, like seeing or feeling something
A simple feeling from one of your senses, for example touch or hearing
A quick feeling from sight, sound, touch, taste or smell
How Immediate
137
3.5
- Specialized
1
9.9
- Specialized
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9.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase combines 'sense' (the faculties of perception) with 'experience' (an event or occurrence), so its meaning — an experience mediated by the senses — is directly and compositionally derivable from the parts. This is a common, cross-linguistic way to form a compound describing sensory experience, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Sense experience combines sense (like touch, sight, or sound) and experience (something you feel directly). Imagine touching a hot pan — the instant feeling comes before you think, so sense experience means a direct 'perception' or awareness without thinking.