- esthesis
- nounan unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation-
a sensation of touch
• Syn: ↑sensation, ↑aesthesis, ↑sense experience, ↑sense impression, ↑sense datum• Hypernyms: ↑perception• Hyponyms:↑threshold, ↑limen, ↑masking, ↑vision, ↑visual sensation, ↑smell, ↑odor, ↑odour, ↑olfactory sensation, ↑olfactory perception, ↑taste, ↑taste sensation, ↑gustatory sensation, ↑taste perception, ↑gustatory perception, ↑sound, ↑auditory sensation, ↑synesthesia, ↑synaesthesia* * *
/es thee"sis/, n.Also, aesthesis.[1850-55; < Gk aísthesis sensation, perception]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.