sensiferous
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin sensifer; sensus (“sense”) + ferre (“to bear”).
Adjective edit
sensiferous (not comparable)
- Exciting or conveying sensation.
- 1894, Thomas Henry Huxley, Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley:
- Whatever be the apparent diversities among the sensiferous apparatuses , however , they share certain common characters . Each consists of a receptive , a transmissive , and a sensificatory portion
References edit
“sensiferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.