different between sensorium vs sensory

English

Etymology

From Late Latin sens?rium, from Latin senti? (“feel, perceive”) + Latin -orium (“suffix denoting a place for a particular function”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n?s??.?i.?m/

Noun

sensorium (plural sensoriums or sensoria)

1. (psychology) The entire sensory apparatus of an organism.
2. (physiology) The central part of a nervous system that receives and coordinates all stimuli.
3. (figuratively) The brain or mind in relation to the senses.

Anagrams

• Monsieurs, monsieurs

Latin

Etymology

From senti?. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sen?so?.ri.um/, [s????s?o??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sen?so.ri.um/, [s?n?s???ium]

Noun

s?ns?rium n (genitive s?ns?ri? or s?ns?r?); second declension

1. the seat or organ of sensation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• sensorium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sensorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• sensoric

Etymology

From sense +? -ory.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.s?.?i/
• Rhymes: -?ns??i

Adjective

sensory (not comparable)

1. Of the physical senses or sensation.
2. (neuroanatomy) Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers.

   Synonym: afferent

Usage notes

Prefix combining form is sensori-, as in sensorimotor.

Synonyms

• sensely

Derived terms

Related terms

• sensible
• sensual
• sensuous

Translations

Noun

sensory (plural sensories)

1. (biology, dated) The sensorium.
2. (obsolete) An organ or faculty of sense.

Derived terms

• sensorial

References

• “sensory”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “sensory”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• syrones