Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving rise to sensation: sensific; originating a sensory impulse: noting the initial point of a series of molecular movements which are ultimately perceived as a sensation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing or exciting sensation.
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- adjective Causing or exciting
sensation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For, starting with the assumption that all knowledge is the perception of relations, and finding themselves, like mere common-sense folks, very much disposed to call sensation knowledge, they at once gratify that disposition and save their consistency, by declaring that even the simplest act of sensation contains two terms and a relation -- the sensitive subject, the sensigenous object, and that masterful entity, the Ego.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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A bell records no audible sign of having been rung five minutes ago, and the activity of a sensigenous cerebral particle might similarly leave no trace.
Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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