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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of sensorium.

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Examples

  • And the sensoria are the organs or members through which sensations are conveyed.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • In the mind of a scientific thinker like Sacks it can trigger new insights and, perhaps, effort to see how much more can be achieved for noticing more using seemingly intact sensoria by means of willful compensation and training. — david dell

    The World Science Festival: Oliver Sacks at the MET - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • The story is about a guineapig in a program to track criminals with reality-TV-style spyware that transmits their sensoria to a home audience.

    Boing Boing: July 16, 2006 - July 22, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Some say that it has two souls, because it is furnished with two pineal glands, with two callous substances, with two “sensoria communia.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Something that articulates the necessarily rough-edged way experience presents itself to us; or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, the necessarily rough-edged way our sensoria access that experience.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • The desire of this position lies in its ambition to reach into the structures that produce history and the sensorium, thereby arriving at a means of generating histories and sensoria, potentially for all.

    Seeing Is Reading 2005

  • Something that articulates the necessarily rough-edged way experience presents itself to us; or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, the necessarily rough-edged way our sensoria access that experience.

    The rough edges Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • It was chrome and black, dotted with incomprehensible patterns of blinking lights and blisters of sensoria.

    HIS WHORE THE VECTOR by David McGillveray | Fiction | Futurismic 2005

  • The book is set against a backdrop of copyright-maximialist galactic civilization in which all sensoria is mediated, and depending on which license fees you pay, you see and hear different parts of the real world (i.e., banners, facades, etc).

    Boing Boing: April 28, 2002 - May 4, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Still less comprehensible were the eerie sensoria it projected to her -- sometimes, the only way it would take part in their discourse, for weeks on end.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

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