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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
sensory
/ˈsɛnsəɹi/
adjective
referring to the five senses (hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch)
- “It is hard, perhaps even impossible, to define normal sensory perception.”Tatoeba
- “The sensory nerves send messages to the brain.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)