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单词 sensigenous
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sensigenousadj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sense n., -i- connective, -genous comb. form.
Etymology: < sense n. + -i- connective + -genous comb. form; compare -igenous comb. form.
Obsolete. rare.
Produced by or producing sensations.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] > causing physical sensation
sensific1634
pathetic1653
sensigenous1874
aesthesiogenic1879
sensifacient1879
sensificatory1879
1874 T. H. Huxley in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Aug. 270/2 It is not to be doubted that the impression excited by those motions which give rise to sensation leaves in the brain molecular changes which answer to what Haller called vestigia rerum, and which that great thinker David Hartley termed ‘Vibratiuncles’, which we might term sensigenous molecular [sic], and which constitute the physical foundation of memory.
1874 T. H. Huxley in Nature 3 Sept. 365/2 The sensation which has passed away leaves behind molecules of the brain competent to its reproduction—‘sensigenous molecules’ so to speak.
1879 T. H. Huxley Hume ii. 73 The sensigenous object, and that masterful entity, the Ego.
1913 A. Hopewell-Smith Introd. Dental Anat. & Physiol. xv. 307 Thus chemical, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and other sensigenous impressions produce only one subjective effect—pain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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