The corpus record

αἴσθ-ησις

aisthesis · ἡ

sense-perception, sensation

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Where it lives

De Insomniis 22 · 92.2/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 25 · 84.09/10k
De Sensu et Sensibilibus 53 · 67.82/10k
De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 8 · 43.53/10k
De Memoria et Reminiscentia 9 · 37.45/10k
Theaetetus 66 · 29.36/10k
Categories 19 · 18.91/10k
Proverbia 21 · 18.9/10k
De Divinatione per Somnum 2 · 16.68/10k
Enneads 276 · 13.02/10k
Minos 3 · 10.52/10k
Timaeus 21 · 8.88/10k

Densest 12 of 53 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

αἴσθ-ησις · aisth-ēsis — LSJ

sense-perception, sensation, perceptibly, the senses, organ, seat of sensation, perception, sense of, pain, perception, knowledge, a perception of, a perception, perceptible, the means of observing

sense-perception, sensation, Philol. 13, Archyt. 1, Arist. APo. 99b35; τοῦ σώματος ἡ αἴ. Hp. VM 9; πρὸς αἴσθησιν perceptibly, Ptol. Alm. 1.10, etc.: in pl., the senses, Democr. 9, al.; διʼ ἑπτὰ σχημάτων αἱ αἰ. Hp. Vict. 1.23, cf. Pl. Tht. 156b, etc.: in sg. of the several senses, ἡ τοῦ ὁρᾶν αἴ. Id. R. 507e; ἀπʼ ὄψεως ἤ τινος ἄλλῃς αἰ. Id. Phlb. 39b; organ or seat of sensation, X. Mem. 1.4.6; πάσα, τὰς αἰ. ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ εἶναι Arist. Fr. 95, cf. Pr. 958b16; αἴ. πημάτων perception, sense of . . , E.

II impressions of sense, stage-effects, visible appearances

in object. sense, impressions of sense, Arist. Metaph. 980a22; stage-effects, Po. 1454b16; αἰσθήσεις θεῶν visible appearances of the gods, Pl. Phd. 111b.

2 display of feeling

display of feeling, Arist. Rh. 1386a32 (v.l.).

3 scent

in hunting, scent, X. Cyn. 3.5 (pl.).—Confined to Prose in early writers, exc. E. l.c., Antiph. 196.5.

In the wild

αἴσθησιν · aisthēsin Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1937)
αἰσθήσεως · aisthēseōs Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2450)
αἰσθήσεως · aisthēseōs Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1500)
αἴσθησις · aisthēsis Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2459)
αἰσθήσεως · aisthēseōs Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Β (DIORISIS sentence 2455)
αἴσθησις · aisthēsis Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1996)

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