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Sensorium
Part of Speech: noun
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1. The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.
Examples of usage:
- Preference I cannot think possible; she could not, it seems to me, have felt anything for one of us without feeling the same for both; I do not see how, with all she knew of us, we could have made two impressions upon her moral sensorium. - "The Flight of the Shadow", George MacDonald.
- We admit that every city consists not of one, but many parts: thus, if we should endeavour to comprehend the different species of animals we should first of all note those parts which every animal must have, as a certain sensorium, and also what is necessary to acquire and retain food, as a mouth and a belly; besides certain parts to enable it to move from place to place. - "Politics A Treatise on Government", Aristotle.
- Some psychologists, however, contend that the emotional experience is generated in the sensorium prior to, and not subsequent to, the behaviour- response and the visceral disturbances. - "Darwin and Modern Science", A.C. Seward and Others.
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