sensory Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
    centripetal; receptive.
    • sensory neurons
  2. adjective involving or derived from the senses
    sensorial.
    • sensory experience
    • sensory channels
  3. adjective relating to or concerned in sensation
    sensational.
    • the sensory cortex
    • sensory organs

WordNet

Sen"so*ry adjective
Definitions
  1. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

Webster 1913