exteroception

1. Sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body (synset 105661693)
   is a type of: sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity - (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation
   subtypes:

   • sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense - the ability to see; the visual faculty
   • cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch, touch modality - the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
   • audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing - the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
   • gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, taste - the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
   • olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell - the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

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