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    SENSE DATUM

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulationplay

    Example:

    a sensation of touch

    Synonyms:

    aesthesis; esthesis; sensation; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("sense datum" is a kind of...):

    perception (the process of perceiving)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sense datum"):

    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)

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