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SENSORIUM

Definition: SENSORIUM

SENSORIUM

Noun

1. 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, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SENSORIUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Etymology: Sensorium \Sen*so"ri*um\, noun; plural English Sensoriums, from Latin expression Sensoria. [Latin expression, from sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses.]. (Websters 1913)

"SENSORIUM" is a common misspelling or typo for: sensorial, sensory.


Synonyms within Context: SENSORIUM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Intellect

Brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium, sensory; head, headpiece; pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull,

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SENSORIUM

English words defined with "SENSORIUM": Sensery, Sensoria, Sensoriums. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SENSORIUM": BLUSHDaylights. (references)
Etymologies containing "SENSORIUM": sensorial. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SENSORIUM

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SENSORIUM

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Given a diagnosis for which the efficacy of ECT has been established, the immediate risk of suicide (when not manageable by other means) is a clear indication for the consideration of ECT. Acute manic episode--especially when characterized by clouded sensorium, dehydration, extreme psychomotor agitation, high risk for serious medical complications or death through exhaustion, and nonresponse to pharmacological interventions--are also clear indications for ECT. The severe and unremitting nature of the patient's emotional suffering, or extreme incapacitation, are also important considerations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SENSORIUM

"SENSORIUM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SENSORIUM" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SENSORIUM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  sensorium

6

  jp.net sensorium

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SENSORIUM

Language Translations for "SENSORIUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

съзнание (consciousness, daylights, mind, sentience), сивото вещество на мозъка, орган на съзнанието, нервна система (nerves), мозък (brain, pericranium, wetware). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κέντρο των αισθήσεων. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בית תחוש". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensoriumsay

   

Turkish

  

duyu merkezi, beyin (brain, brains, cerebral, cerebrum, encephalic, gray matter, grey matter, intelligence, loaf, mastermind), algı merkezi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SENSORIUM

Derivations

Words beginning with "SENSORIUM": sensoriums. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SENSORIUM"

Words rhyming with "SENSORIUM" (pronounced 'Sen*so"ri*um'): Arachnidium, Brachium, Gypsum, Paleotherium, Pallium, Palmarium, Paludamentum, Pancratium, Pandemonium, Panhellenium, Panicum, Parabronchium, Paradactylum, Paramylum, Parapodium, Parapterum, Parascenium, Parhelium, Parovarium, Pastorium, Patagium, Paum, Peculium, Pelopium, Pentachenium, Peplum, Perianthium, Pericambium, Pericardium, Perichaetium, Perichondrium, Periclinium, Pericranium, Periculum, Peridium, Perigonium, Perigynium, Perimysium, Perinaeum, Perineum, Perineurium, Periosteum, Periostracum, Peristomium, Perithecium, Peritoneum, Peritrochium, Petalum, Petrolatum, Petroleum. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SENSORIUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-o-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: monsieur, neurosis, resinous.

-2 letters: eonisms, insures, isomers, merinos, minuses, misuser, mossier, mousers, mousier, mureins, murines, mussier, seniors, serious, sermons, sonsier, sunrise, surmise, urinose.

-3 letters: enosis, eonism, eosins, essoin, insure, inures, irones, isomer, issuer, merino, mesons, miners, minors, mioses, misers, misuse, moires, monies, mosser, mourns, mouser, mouses, mousse, murein, murine, musers, noesis, noises, nosier.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-o-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: sensoriums, submersion.

 

+2 letters: consumerism, consumerist, ignoramuses, minicourses, misconstrue, misfortunes, ostensorium, prosceniums, resumptions, somniferous, submersions, uniformness.

 

+3 letters: consumerisms, consumerists, consumership, gourmandises, mensurations, misconstrued, misconstrues, multisensory, neuroticisms, nourishments, presumptions, reassumption, resubmission, seminiferous, timorousness.

 

+4 letters: angiospermous, anticonsumers, consumeristic, consumerships, customariness, gastrocnemius, housewarmings, imperiousness, menstruations, microfunguses, mispronounces, misunderstood, neurochemists, numerologists, reassumptions, reductionisms, resubmissions, somersaulting, superimposing, superorganism, tumorigeneses, tumorigenesis, uniformnesses, volunteerisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SENSORIUM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 45 4E 53 4F 52 49 55 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    -.    ...    ---    .-.    ..    ..-    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001111 01010010 01001001 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#78 &#83 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 004E 0053 004F 0052 0049 0055 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

533948534952435547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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