multisensory

Engaging multiple senses

Multisensory means involving or engaging more than one sense at once.

A multisensory experience might combine sight, sound, and touch.

The term appears often in education, where multisensory learning uses visual, auditory, and tactile methods together: The teacher developed multisensory activities for struggling readers.

perception

synesthesia

Involuntary sensory crossover

taste · touch · vision · auditory · olfactory · gustatory · tactile · kinesthetic · proprioception · perceptual

experience

immersion

State of being submerged

atmosphere · ambience · environment · vivid · palpable · textured · resonant · enveloping · stimulating · rich

integration

synthesis

Combining parts into whole

harmony · unity · cohesion · interplay · combination · synchronization · coordination · binding · unified · composite

therapy

aromatherapy

Therapeutic use of plant essences

mindfulness · chromotherapy · reflexology · incense · fragrance · soothing · calming · healing · rehabilitation · occupational

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Opposites
number of senses engaged

multisensoryunimodal

Having one mode

one-dimensional

integration vs isolation of sensory input

multisensorycompartmentalized

Divided into isolated sections

sensory engagement

multisensorynonsensory

Not involving physical perception

abstract · disembodied · intellectual · conceptual

Family

sense, sensitive, senses, sensation, senseless, sentient, sensed, sensual, sensor

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