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sensory (less commonly), sensorial 1. of or relating to the senses or the power of sensation 2. of or relating to those processes and structures within an organism that receive stimuli from the environment and convey them to the brain How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But they reflect the way in which a sensorily deprived imagination can blow banal perceptions out of proportion. [ldots] instead of the familiar process of substantiation in which the observer certifies the existence of the thing by experiencing the thing in his own body (seeing it, touching it), the observer instead sees and touches the hurt body of another person juxtaposed to the disembodied idea, and having sensorily experienced the first, believes he or she has experienced the reality of the second (Scarry 1985: 125). |
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