Senses in language

Language can make reference to any or all senses by deliberate use of appropriate sensory words. Note
that these can be both direct description and also sensory metaphors.
Sight
Talking about light and dark, shades and hues, visible shape and appearance references the visual sense.

Her brilliant red blouse fitted her slim figure like a glove.

Sound
Auditory senses are triggered by reference to loudness, timbre, actual words spoken, and so on.

He shouted harsh approval at the sound of her pure warbling Italian soprano.

Feeling
Tactile feeling and emotional feeling are closely connected, as we sense our emotions as tensions and
other physical bodily experiences.

His heart thumped as he grasped the meaning of her smile.

Taste and smell

Our gustatory senses are closely linked and are often used in the metaphoric sense.

She could stomach his words no longer and smelled a bitter rat in his intent.

Smell in particularly is powerfully evocative sense and can easily trigger early memories

1. The act of differing in belief, specifically, the rendering of a minority opinion in the decision of a
law case.
(a) assent (b) dissension (c) sentimentality
(d) consensus (e) insensibility
2. My parents gave their (permission) for us to stay out later tonight.
(a) sensation (b) dissent (c) dissension
(d) assent (e) resentment
3. Responsive to, or feeling, something very easily.
(a) sensitive (b) extrasensory (c) insensitive
(d) insensible (e) dissension
4. The tips of the fingers are considered to be very (feeling something very easily).
(a) desensitized (b) extrasensory (c) sentimental
(d) insensible (e) sensitive
5. The fisherman’s hands were (unfeeling) to the cold.
(a) sensitive (b) insensitive (c) sensuous
(d) sensationalized (e) supersensory
6. After the accident, he had no (awareness) in his right index finger.
(a) insensibility (b) dissension (c) resentment
(d) extrasensory (e) sensation
7. Easily hurt; very tender or raw.
(a) insensate (b) insensible (c) sensitive
(d) resentment (e) extrasensory
8. The cool breeze caused a strange (process of receiving conscious sense impressions) in the heat of the night
(a) supersensibility (b) sensation (c) consensus
(d) insensibility (e) insensation
9. Her (psychic) ability to predict the future was amazingly accurate.
(a) sensitive (b) insensitive (c) supersensory
(d) sensual (e) sensational
10. Feeling indignation or bitterness at some remark or action.
(a) insensitivity (b) sensation (c) insensation
(d) supersensibility (e) resentment

Sight Words Sound Words Tactile Words Taste and Smell Words
shimmering raucous feathery fragrant
shiny raspy parched oily
brilliant bellowing prickly savory
massive cackle damp honeyed
radiant whimper downy bitter
jeweled trill gritty tangy