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sense datum

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A basic unanalyzable sensation, such as a color or smell, experienced upon stimulation of a sense organ or receptor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

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hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. perception

hyponyms (19)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. auditory sensation
  2. gustatory perception
  3. gustatory sensation
  4. limen
  5. masking
  6. odor
  7. odour
  8. olfactory perception
  9. olfactory sensation
  10. smell
  11. sound
  12. synaesthesia
  13. synesthesia
  14. taste
  15. taste perception
  16. taste sensation
  17. threshold
  18. vision
  19. visual sensation

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