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Definition of Sensory faculty

1. Noun. The faculty through which the external world is apprehended. "In the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensory Faculty

Literary usage of Sensory faculty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"That is to say, on the whole the sensory faculty is of course dimmed and inhibited by sleep ; but there are nevertheless indications of a power subsisting ..."

2. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers, Leopold Hamilton Myers (1907)
"That is to say, on the whole the sensory faculty is of course dimmed and inhibited by sleep; but there are nevertheless indications of a power subsisting as ..."

3. Human personality and its survival of bodily death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1906)
"That is to say, on the whole the sensory faculty is of course dimmed and inhibited by sleep; but there are nevertheless indications of a power subsisting as ..."

4. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"... whole the sensory faculty is of course dimmed and inhibited by sleep ; but there are nevertheless indications of a power subsisting as vividly as ever, ..."

5. Greek Theories of Elementary Cognition from Alcmaeon to Aristotle by John Isaac Beare (1906)
"... rise above and are distinguished To possess from vegetables V ' If a body is to possess sensory faculty, animal it must be either simple or compound. ..."

6. Outlines of Physiology, Human and Comparative by John Marshall (1868)
"It is also to be observed, that whilst the repetition of the same sensory impressions may strengthen the sensory faculty, it at the same time weakens the ..."

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