sense organ

Questions about sense organ

What is another word for sense organ?

It depends which sense organ you mean. In the sense “an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation”, the synonyms are sensory receptor, receptor. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sense organ?

WordNet records no antonym for sense organ. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sense organ come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of sense organ

• Full entry for sense organAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sense organWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.