How do you pronounce sensate?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɛn.seɪt/.

Where does sensate come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

/ˈsɛn.seɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English

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Perceived by one or more of the senses.

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verb

To feel or apprehend by means of the senses; to perceive.

Transitive verb

"Mendicant was able to postpone its inevitable annihilation for [106:S] with its attempt to flee. But the last of its core vessels hangs before me now; crippled and defeated but still sensate."
"To say that Volitions which are acts of the Intellectual Soul must be sensate, and so make a Species on the phantasie, as sensate things do"
"to sensate light, or an odour"
"c. 1673, Robert Hooke, quoted in The History of the Royal Society of London As those of the one are enated by the ear, so those of the other are by the eye."

From Middle English sensat, from Late Latin sensatus (“able to sense”), from sensus (“sense”).

more sensate (comparative) most sensate (superlative) sensates (present, singular) sensating (participle, present) sensated (participle, past) sensated (past)

nonsensate sensately