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Definition of Esthesis
1. Noun. An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation. "A sensation of touch"
Generic synonyms: Perception
Specialized synonyms: Limen, Threshold, Masking, Vision, Visual Sensation, Odor, Odour, Olfactory Perception, Olfactory Sensation, Smell, Gustatory Perception, Gustatory Sensation, Taste, Taste Perception, Taste Sensation, Auditory Sensation, Sound, Synaesthesia, Synesthesia
Derivative terms: Sense
Definition of Esthesis
1. Noun. (philosophy psychology) Elemental awareness of sensory stimulation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Esthesis
1. esthesia [n -THESISES or -THESES] - See also: esthesia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Esthesis
Literary usage of Esthesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art Teaching of John Ruskin by William Gershom Collingwood (1891)
"The pleasures of sense, ^esthesis, are open to intemperance; they are also
arbitrary; they involve the fallacies that Beauty is the result of use and custom ..."
2. The Physical Basis of Mind ...: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life by George Henry Lewes (1877)
"... esthesis, or subject-world : two independent existente, one contemplated, ...
of contemplations, the Physis being also the ^esthesis. ..."
3. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1891)
"... and an ^esthesis, or subject-world: two independent existents, ... the Physis
being also the ^esthesis. Psychological investigation shows ..."
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