sensorial

Of the senses

Sensorial means relating to the senses or sensation.

The word overlaps almost completely with sensory, though sensorial appears more often in specialized contexts like education and design: sensorial learning activities, the sensorial experience of the space.

Both adjectives describe what can be perceived through sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell.

perception

sight

Visual perception faculty

touch · vision · auditory · olfactory · gustatory · tactile · detection · discrimination · processing · neural

physicality

touch

Perceiving through physical contact

temperature · warmth · coolness · pain · pleasure · tingle · vibration · roughness · smoothness · softness

stimulation

aroma

Pleasant distinctive smell

taste · color · hue · brightness · contrast · saturation · harmony · resonance · vibrancy · richness

experiential

immersive

Fully engaging the senses

atmospheric · ambiance · textured · nuanced · resonant · multisensory · synaesthetic · enveloping · heightened · luxurious

intuitive

instinct

Innate behavioral tendency

intuition · empathy · subconscious · innate · visceral · somatic · embodied · nonverbal · subliminal · implicit

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Opposites
mode of perception/knowledge

sensorialintellectual

Concerning thought and reason

cognitive · rational · mental · cerebral · conceptual

physical versus immaterial

sensorialextrasensory

Beyond ordinary perception

disembodied · spiritual · metaphysical · transcendent · supersensory

Family

sense, sensitive, consent, sensation, sensible, sentient, sensational, sensed, dissent

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