{
  "id": "feel.sensory",
  "term": "feel",
  "sense": "sensory",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "semantic",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to notice a state in a body",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "touch.together",
      "state.condition",
      "body.physical",
      "notice.perceptual"
    ],
    "interaction": "Touch together with a body state is noticed as a condition.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bodily awareness",
      "perceived state change",
      "tactile recognition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A person flinches when their skin contacts 80°C metal.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars rover's sensors detect vibrations from wind moving its solar panels.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A blindfolded participant identifies a lemon by squeezing it during a sensory study at MIT.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a feeling is a kind of condition"
    },
    {
      "id": "touch.together",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "touch enables feeling"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "happy.emotional",
    "pleasure.feeling"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "feel",
    "feeling",
    "feels",
    "felt"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added body.physical and notice.perceptual to components; both are necessary for the definition to hold and are constitutive. Definition remains unchanged as it is accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-feel.sensory"
}