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SENSE MODALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A particular sense
Synonyms:
modality; sense modality; sensory system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sense modality" is a kind of...):
sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency (the faculty through which the external world is apprehended)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sense modality"):
sight; vision; visual modality; visual sense (the ability to see; the visual faculty)
somatosense (any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain)
audition; auditory modality; auditory sense; hearing; sense of hearing (the ability to hear; the auditory faculty)
gustation; gustatory modality; sense of taste; taste (the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth)
olfaction; olfactory modality; sense of smell; smell (the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents)
