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AESTHESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
Example:
a sensation of touch
Synonyms:
aesthesis; esthesis; sensation; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("aesthesis" is a kind of...):
perception (the process of perceiving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aesthesis"):
limen; threshold (the smallest detectable sensation)
masking (the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation)
vision; visual sensation (the perceptual experience of seeing)
odor; odour; olfactory perception; olfactory sensation; smell (the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form)
gustatory perception; gustatory sensation; taste; taste perception; taste sensation (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus)
auditory sensation; sound (the subjective sensation of hearing something)
synaesthesia; synesthesia (a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated)
