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Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3.

One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver. Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific term for the capacity of feeling. Hickok.

To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.

An agent that sensitizes. The sensitizer should be poured on the middle of the sheet. Wilis & Clements (The Platinotype).

An instrument or apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.

See Sensory.

Having sense or sensibility; sensitive. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.

Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers. A. Tucker.

The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system,…

Same as Sensorium.

Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends. Pope.

The condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.

One who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.

Sensual.

The quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness. Those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality. Shak. They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensual…

The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized.