| has gloss | (noun) sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
exteroception |
| lexicalization | eng: exteroception |
| subclass of | (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation; "sensitivity to pain"
sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensibility |
| has subclass | (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty
visual modality, vision, visual sense, sight |
| has subclass | (noun) the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us"
cutaneous senses, touch modality, skin senses, touch, sense of touch |
| has subclass | (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired"
auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality, hearing, audition |
| has subclass | (noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste"
sense of taste, taste, gustation, gustatory modality |
| has subclass | (noun) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
sense of smell, olfactory modality, smell, olfaction |