| exteroception | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. exteroception | sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body. |
| ~ sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation.; "sensitivity to pain" |
| ~ visual modality, visual sense, vision, sight | the ability to see; the visual faculty. |
| ~ cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, touch | 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" |
| ~ audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing, hearing | the ability to hear; the auditory faculty.; "his hearing was impaired" |
| ~ gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth.; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste" |
| ~ olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell | the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents. |
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