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A Word To Represent The 5 Senses

English Language & Usage Asked by Xarcell on December 14, 2020

Working on a game and I need a single word that represents the 5 senses: smell, touch, taste, sound, and sight.

At the moment I’m using “perception” which I don’t think is adequate.

5 Answers

Have you considered senses?

any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.

It may be obvious, but I think it fits your needs nicely.

Correct answer by long on December 14, 2020

Sensorium might be the word you want.

Definition of SENSORIUM

: the parts of the brain or the mind concerned with the reception and interpretation of sensory stimuli; broadly : the entire sensory apparatus

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensorium

Answered by GMB on December 14, 2020

I am thinking of the word stimuli.

However, a more suitable word is the ancient Greek word αίσθηση (aesthesee):
sensation, sense, perception, feeling, impression, notion.

The Greek for five senses is πέντε αισθήσεις (pente aestheseis).

This is the Greek word from which the English aesthetic derives. Also spelled esthetic (US).

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy involving indulging of senses to appreciate our environment.

I would not restrict the aesthetic senses, but if you need to you could coin the word penthesys, or pentesthesys.

Otherwise, in a computer game, one could have the basic aesthesis/aesthesys, and progressively gains further awareness or higher consciousness, gaining more talents of aesthesys.

aes·thet·ic or es·thet·ic (s-thtk)
adj.

  1. Relating to the philosophy or theories of aesthetics.
  2. Of or concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste: the aesthetic faculties.
  3. Characterized by a heightened sensitivity to beauty.
  4. Artistic: The play was an aesthetic success.
  5. Informal Conforming to accepted notions of good taste.

n.

  1. A guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty and taste; artistic sensibility: "a generous Age of Aquarius aesthetic that said that everything was art" (William Wilson).
  2. An underlying principle, a set of principles, or a view often manifested by outward appearances or style of behavior: "What troubled him was the squalor of [the colonel's] aesthetic" (Lewis H. Lapham).

[German ästhetisch, from New Latin aesthticus, from Greek aisthtikos, of sense perception, from aisthta, perceptible things, from aisthanesthai, to perceive; see au- in Indo-European roots.]

aes·theti·cal·ly adv.

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Answered by Blessed Geek on December 14, 2020

Empiricism - Something you sense "empirically". (Pertaining to the 5 senses)

Answered by Jeff Sears on December 14, 2020

I am tossed between "sensable" and "sensate". The words are not universally defined in all the dictionaries but are there in some dictionaries.

Answered by Bob on December 14, 2020

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