sensorium

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world

From Late Latin sensōrium, from Latin sentiō (“feel, perceive”) + Latin -ōrium (suffix denoting a place for a particular function).

Wild antic faces would ever and anon protrude themselves upon his sensorium. — English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, John Timbs
She might lose her visibility, or her tangibility; or, in short, the power of making impressions upon the radical sensorium; so that he should never be able to tell whether she was dead or alive. — The Light Princess, George MacDonald
Nietzsche's sensorium, as his autobiography proves, was probably the most delicate instrument ever possessed by a human being; and with this fragile structure--the prerequisite, by the bye, of all genius,--his terrible will compelled him to confront the most profound and most recondite problems. — Ecce Homo: Complete Works, Volume Seventeen, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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