DefinitionsProprioceptive; ProprioceptionSensational; Sensibilia; Sensibility; SensibleSensitive/Sensitivity; Sensual; Sensuous; Sentience; Voluptuous
Proprioceptive; Proprioception The proprioceptive senses are, specifically, sensory nerve terminals (proprioceptors) found in muscles, tendons, and joint capsules, which give information concerning movements and position of the body. Viz.:
Even more specifically:
If one were to close the eyes and extend an arm out to the side, for instance, and then to the front there is a sensing, or perception, of where the hand is located in space in relation to the body itself ... especially when the muscles of the hand are flexed. The sense of movement (the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body) is called kinaesthesia and the inability to sense movement is called kinanaesthesia. Sometimes the receptors in the labyrinth (the vestibular sense organ), or inner ear, are also considered proprioceptors. The sense of balance, or equilibrium, is stimulated by gravity, rotation, and acceleration. Viz.:
Again, if one were to close the eyes one will find there is a sensing, or perception, of being oriented in space (of space all around including behind the body) ... and this has as much to do with balance, acceleration and/or rotation in space, orientation in a gravity field (if there be one) as it has to do with the proprioceptive senses proper in the muscles, tendons, and joints. The proprioceptive senses are part of the somatic sensory system (somaesthesis/ somaesthesia) which is the faculty of bodily perception (sensory systems associated with the body) and includes skin senses (cutaneous receptors for hot/cold, pressure, physical pleasure/ pain, for example) and the internal organs sensors (cardiovascular or circulatory receptors for blood pressure, heart rate, and carbon dioxide and digestive tract receptors for hunger and thirst, for instance) as well as the equilibrium sense, or sense of balance, already mentioned. Thus proprioception is the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body, and its parts, because of the proprioceptors in the muscles, tendons, and joint capsules (in combination with the sense of balance, acceleration and/or rotation in space, and orientation in a gravitational field, of the inner ear or vestibular organ). In other words: the sense of being here, in space, as a body is not just because of sight (visual perception), sound
(auditory perception), touch (cutaneous perception), smell (olfactory perception), and taste (gustatory perception). • sensational (adj.): of or relating to sensation; (adv.): sensationally. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • sensational (adj.): of or relating to the faculty of sensation; (philosophy: of or relating to sensationalism (=the doctrine that knowledge cannot go beyond the analysis of experience; also called sensuism); (adv.): sensationally. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • sensational (adj.): of or pertaining to the senses or sensation; (adv.): sensationally. [1830-40]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • sensational (adj.): relating to or concerned in sensation; [e.g.]: “the sensational cortex”; “sensory organs”; (synonyms): sensorial, sensory (involving or derived from the senses); [e.g.]: “sensorial experience”; “sensory channels”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • sensational (adj.): of or relating to sensation or the senses; (synonyms): sensitive, sensorial, sensory, sensual,
sensuous. [French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin
sēnsātiō, sēnsātiōn-,from Late Latin sēnsātus, ‘gifted with sense’;
from Latin sēnsus, ‘sense’; from past participle of sentīre,
‘to feel’ + -al]. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).
sensibilia (n.): “that which can be sensed” [from Latin, neuter plural of sensibilis,
‘sensible’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). sensibility: power of sensation or perception; sensitivity [having the function of sensation or sensory perception] to sensory stimuli’. (Oxford Dictionary). For example:
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• sensible: perceptible by the senses; of or pertaining to the senses or sensation. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). • sensitive (adj.): responsive to or aware of feelings, moods, reactions, etc.; (adv.): sensitively; (n.): sensitiveness. [C14: from Medieval Latin sēnsitīvus, from Latin sentīre, ‘to feel’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • sensitive (adj.): being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others; (antonym): insensitive (=deficient in human sensitivity; not mentally or morally sensitive). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • sensitivity (n.): sensitive to emotional feelings of self and others; (synonyms): sensitiveness; feeling (=the experiencing of affective and emotional states); [e.g.]: “she had an uneasy feeling of distress”; “he had terrible feelings of guilt”; “he disliked me and the feeling was mutual”; oversensitiveness, hypersensitivity (=pathological sensitivity); sensibility (=refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; [e.g.]: “her cruelty affected his sensibility profoundly”); feelings (=emotional or moral sensitivity, esp. in relation to personal principles or dignity); [e.g.]: “the remark hurt his feelings deeply”; (antonyms): insensitiveness, insensitivity (=the inability to respond to affective changes when in an interpersonal environment). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • sensitivity (n.): ‘close to the bone’: deep; near to the heart; to the quick; close to home; also ‘near to the bone’: the deeper a physical wound, the closer it is to the bone; the phrase is usually used figuratively of mental or emotional sensation; ‘to the quick’: where one is most sensitive and vulnerable; to the very heart or core; deeply; often ‘cut to the quick’; in this phrase ‘the quick’ means “the tender, sensitive flesh of the body, particularly that under the nails”; the expression dates both in literal and figurative usage from the 1520s, but is commonly used today to denote extreme mental or emotional pain. ~ (Picturesque Expressions: A Thematic Dictionary). • sensitively (adv.): in a sensitive manner. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • sensitive (adj. and n.): I. (adj.): 1. of, pertaining to, or affecting the senses; depending on the senses; [e.g.]: “The
sensitive faculty may have a sensitive love of some sensitive objects”. (Rev. Dr. Henry Hammond; 1605-1660); “All the actions of the
sensitive appetite are in painting called passions, because the soul is agitated by them, and because the body suffers through them and is
sensibly altered”. (John Dryden, “Observations on the Art of Painting of Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy”, 1695; page 150) 2. having sense, sensibility, or feeling; capable of receiving impressions from external objects; often extended,
figuratively, to various inanimate objects; [e.g.]: “We have spoken sufficiently of trees, herbs, and fruits. We will therefore entreat of things
sensitive now”. (Peter Martyr; trans. in Richard Eden’s “First Books on America”, 1895, Edward Arber, p. 131 3. of keen sensibility; keenly susceptible of external influences or impressions; easily and acutely affected or
moved by outward circumstances or impressions: as, a sensitive person, or a person of sensitive nature; figuratively extended to inanimate objects;
[e.g.]: “She was too sensitive to calumny and abuse”. (Thomas Babington, First Baron Macaulay); “We are sensitive to faults in those we love,
while committing them ourselves as if by chartered right”. (Edmund Clarence Stedman, “Victorian Poets”, p. 137); “What is commonly called a sensitive
person is one whose sense-organs cannot go on responding as the stimulus increases in strength, but become fatigued”. (John Sully, “Outlines of Psychology”,
p. 145); “I borrow the term sensitive, for magneto-physiological reaction, from vegetable physiology, in which plants of definite irritability... are
called sensitive in distiction to sensible”. (Baron Karl von Reichenbach, 1788-1869, “Researches on Dynamics”; trans. 1851, footnote, pp.
58-59 II. (n.): 1. something which feels; a sensorium {i.e., the sentiency faculty; a part of the brain, or the brain itself, regarded as the seat of sentiency} 2. a sensitive person; specifically, one who is sensitive to mesmeric or hypnotic influences or experiments; [e.g.]: “For certain experiments it is much to be desired that we should find more sensitives of every kind”. (Proceedings of the Society for Psychic Research, II. 48). [early modern English, also sencitive; from Old French (and French) sensitif = Provinçal sensitiu = Spanish, Portuguese, Italian sensitico, from Medieval Latin sensitivus, from Latin sentire, pp. sensus, perceive: see sense¹]. [curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • sensitiveness (n.): the property or character of being sensitive; especially, tendency or disposition to be easily influenced or affected by
external objects, events, or circumstances: as, abnormal sensitiveness the sensitiveness of a balance or some fine mechanism; [e.g.]: “Parts of the body which lose all
sensitiveness come to be regarded as external things”. (Prof. George Trumbull Ladd, 1842-1921, “Elements of Physiological Psychology”, 1887, p.
401 sensual (adj.): carnal; lascivious; lacking moral restraints; [e.g.]: “Her sinuous dance was a sensual tour de force”; not to
be confused with sensory (adj.): of or relating to the senses, or the power of sensation, and to the processes and structures within an organism
which, receiving stimuli from the environment, convey them to the brain; (synonyms): sensible; sentient; sensate.
~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary). ‘sensuous’ (a.): Of, derived from, or affecting the senses aesthetically rather than sensually; readily affected by the senses, keenly responsive to the pleasures of sensation. Also, indicative of a sensuous temperament. Apparently first used by Mr. John Milton, to avoid certain associations of the existing word ‘sensual’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary). Thus: ‘sensuousness’ (n.): the quality of being sensuous; also: ‘sensuously’ (adv.): the experience of being sensuous;
and: ‘sensuosity’ (n.): the capability of being sensuous). sentience: the condition or quality of being sentient [a person or thing capable of perception by the
senses; having the power or function of sensation]; consciousness, susceptibility to sensation. ~ (Oxford
Dictionary). voluptuous (adj.): 1. derived from gratification of the senses; [e.g.]: “voluptuous pleasure”; 2. sensuously pleasing or delightful;
[e.g.]: “voluptuous magnificence”; 3. full and shapely; [e.g.]: “a voluptuous figure”; 4. characterised by or ministering to indulgence in luxury,
pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment; [e.g.]: “a voluptuous life”; (adv.): *voluptuously*; (n.): voluptuosity, voluptuousness.
[1325-75; Middle English, from Old French voluptueux, from Latin voluptuōsus, full of pleasure’, derivative of volupt(ās),
‘pleasure’ + -ōsus -ous; -u- probably by association with sumptuōsus, ‘sumptuous’]. [emphasis added].
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