exteroception, n.
(exteroceptions)
sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
<noun.cognition>
exteroception
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
vision, sight, visual sense, visual modality
sense of touch, touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality
taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality
smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality