ESTHESIS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does esthesis mean? 

• ESTHESIS (noun)
  The noun ESTHESIS has 1 sense:

1. an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

  Familiarity information: ESTHESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTHESIS (noun)

Meaning:

An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

aesthesis; esthesis; sensation; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression

Context example:

a sensation of touch

Hypernyms ("esthesis" is a kind of...):

perception (the process of perceiving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "esthesis"):

limen; threshold (the smallest detectable sensation)

masking (the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation)

vision; visual sensation (the perceptual experience of seeing)

odor; odour; olfactory perception; olfactory sensation; smell (the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form)

gustatory perception; gustatory sensation; taste; taste perception; taste sensation (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus)

auditory sensation; sound (the subjective sensation of hearing something)

synaesthesia; synesthesia (a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated)