noun
1. a particular sense
• Syn: ↑modality, ↑sense modality
• Hypernyms: ↑sense, ↑sensation, ↑sentience, ↑sentiency, ↑sensory faculty
• Hyponyms:
↑sight, ↑vision, ↑visual sense, ↑visual modality, ↑somatosense, ↑hearing, ↑audition, ↑auditory sense, ↑sense of hearing, ↑auditory modality, ↑taste, ↑gustation, ↑sense of taste, ↑gustatory modality, ↑smell, ↑sense of smell, ↑olfaction, ↑olfactory modality
2. the body's system of sense organs
• Hypernyms: ↑system
• Hyponyms: ↑auditory system, ↑visual system, ↑vestibular apparatus, ↑vestibular system
• Part Holonyms: ↑body, ↑organic structure, ↑physical structure
• Part Meronyms: ↑sense organ, ↑sensory receptor, ↑receptor, ↑olfactory nerve, ↑nervii olfactorii, ↑first cranial nerve
Useful english dictionary. 2012.