1. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; - Example: "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" [syn: sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sensory faculty
n 1: the faculty through which the external world is
apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on
his senses of smell and hearing" [syn: sense,
sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty]