sensorium
/sɛnˈsɔːrɪəm
/noun (plural sensoria /sɛnˈsɔːrɪə/ or sensoriums)
The sensory apparatus or faculties considered as a whole: virtual reality technology directed at recreating the human sensorium...
- Patients with alcoholic hallucinosis experience visual, auditory, or tactile hallucinations but otherwise have a clear sensorium.
- Over the next two days her confusion continued to diminish and she again returned to her baseline sensorium of completely intact cognitive function.
- Can we imagine extending our sensoria and expanding our consciousness to include the dusk of flora?
Derivatives
sensorial
- As defined by Freud, a symbol is sensorial and concrete in itself, although the idea it represents may be relatively abstract and complex.
- The person in trance is wholly involved in the imagery or sensorial experience of the moment.
- What seems to be at the heart of an affective and sensorial cinema is time: an everyday time that provokes an often anxious affective experience for both the performer and the viewer.
sensorially
- I want to argue that entertainment spectacles of the last two decades are reliant on a baroque perceptual regime that sensorially engages the spectator in ways that recall baroque art forms of the seventeenth century.
- These rooms have been previously used in various ganzfeld experiments and consist of a sensorially shielded room where participants are located.
- Rather, one works as a sensorially engaged participant, opening many paths to knowledge and understanding.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin, from Latin sens- 'perceived', from the verb sentire.