sensory faculty

Questions about sensory faculty

What does sensory faculty mean?

sensory faculty means "the faculty through which the external world is apprehended".

What is another word for sensory faculty?

Close synonyms include sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sensory faculty a common word?

sensory faculty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.