Word Type

Adjective

Noun

Adjective

The word "sensory" can be used as adjective, noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

extrasensory

Derived Terms

Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis Wartenberg's migratory sensory neuropathy audiosensory autonomous sensory meridian response biosensory bisensory chemosensory dual sensory impaired electrosensory extrasensory genitosensory hemisensory hygrosensory intersensory laterosensory magnetosensory mechanosensory metabosensory monosensory multisensory neurosensory nonsensory orosensory osmosensory parasensory photosensory polysensory prosensory psychosensory sensori sensori-volitional sensorial sensorily sensoriness sensorineural sensoriperceptual sensory bin sensory dep sensory deprivation sensory garden sensory gating sensory hypersensitivity sensory memory sensory neuron sensory overload sensory play sensory processing sensitivity sensory recall sensory receptor sensory root somatic sensory cortex somatosensory subsensory supersensory suprasensory thermosensory trisensory unisensory unsensory viscerosensory visuosensory

Context

biology

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

auditory gustatory haptic ocular olfactory visual

Related Terms

sensible sensual sensuous

Related Terms

faculty organ sensation sense sensible sensorium sensual sensuous

Similar Terms

afferent

Synonym Network

centripetal sensational sensely

Related Topic Clusters

Creative Writing Scene Language

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.