Hi
A few more to consider:
Touch/Texture: granular, grainy, uneven, rigid, bendy, yielding, boiling, scalding, frozen
Size: slender, huge, enormous, cavernous, infinite, gigantic, microscopic.
Vision: murky
Colours: magenta, violet, indigo (the last two because much used as rainbow and chakra colours)
Smell: malodorous, stinky/stinking. Comment: nidorous exists but I have never heard/seen it used. I would put flowery in smell not vision.
I don’t recognise the application of taste to the following: balmy (= warm weather) bristly (usually texture), bumpy (usually texture), chilly (usually temperature = texture).
Thumbing does not apply to sound as far as I know and steno is not a smell. Both words are rare.
Isn’t the English language rich? this has been great fun, thanks.
movement
effulging, burgeoning, washing, flowing, undulating, flooding, shimmying, rushing, flushing , wafting, quivering. settling, condensing?(the sense of mist settling on something)
size
big, vast,
sound
some adjectives to go with the sounds: precise, clear, sonorous, bassy, muted, muffled, intense, melodic, guttural, continuous, high, undulating, distant, near, to my left, right , in front behind, other locations
clank, clang, melody, tone, warbling
maybe the thumbing (not a sound word I know) could be thrumming?
I get curious about neutrality here as some sounds seem to express affect, I wouldn’t know how to describe the quality of a tone which felt poignant without using the word poignant, or the quality of the tone which has an urgency, or purity etc.. thats just something interesting .. like a minor tone seems intrinsically to have some affect.
tingle is a sensation(as far as I know), but tinkle would be a good replacement
colour
pearly, claret,
perhaps some distinctions: moonlight silver as well as metallic silver : baby blue, electric blue, dark blue Metallic gold, or sunset gold , baby pink, hot pink,
vision
glimmering, luminous
smell
To my mind reeking and sickly are not neutral
could have specific scents: rose, honeysuckle, mint, liquorice, shit, piss, snot, rubber
as I read this I wonder whether mouth-feel is its own class of sensation, with smooth(different when drunk than touched), mellifluous, melty, oily, evaporating like alcohol, creamy, like snow, like sorbet, like nectar
Write a comment if your favourite sensory word is missing from the list
Hi
A few more to consider:
Touch/Texture: granular, grainy, uneven, rigid, bendy, yielding, boiling, scalding, frozen
Size: slender, huge, enormous, cavernous, infinite, gigantic, microscopic.
Vision: murky
Colours: magenta, violet, indigo (the last two because much used as rainbow and chakra colours)
Smell: malodorous, stinky/stinking. Comment: nidorous exists but I have never heard/seen it used. I would put flowery in smell not vision.
I don’t recognise the application of taste to the following: balmy (= warm weather) bristly (usually texture), bumpy (usually texture), chilly (usually temperature = texture).
Thumbing does not apply to sound as far as I know and steno is not a smell. Both words are rare.
Isn’t the English language rich? this has been great fun, thanks.
deep, open, spacious, could go in size or vision
touch/texture
watery, metallic, effervescent, bubbly
held?, weightless, suspended, unimpeded
droplet, globule
movement
effulging, burgeoning, washing, flowing, undulating, flooding, shimmying, rushing, flushing , wafting, quivering. settling, condensing?(the sense of mist settling on something)
size
big, vast,
sound
some adjectives to go with the sounds: precise, clear, sonorous, bassy, muted, muffled, intense, melodic, guttural, continuous, high, undulating, distant, near, to my left, right , in front behind, other locations
clank, clang, melody, tone, warbling
maybe the thumbing (not a sound word I know) could be thrumming?
I get curious about neutrality here as some sounds seem to express affect, I wouldn’t know how to describe the quality of a tone which felt poignant without using the word poignant, or the quality of the tone which has an urgency, or purity etc.. thats just something interesting .. like a minor tone seems intrinsically to have some affect.
tingle is a sensation(as far as I know), but tinkle would be a good replacement
colour
pearly, claret,
perhaps some distinctions: moonlight silver as well as metallic silver : baby blue, electric blue, dark blue Metallic gold, or sunset gold , baby pink, hot pink,
vision
glimmering, luminous
smell
To my mind reeking and sickly are not neutral
could have specific scents: rose, honeysuckle, mint, liquorice, shit, piss, snot, rubber
taste
sherbet, liquorice, mint, lemon, orange, zingy, blackcurrant
as I read this I wonder whether mouth-feel is its own class of sensation, with smooth(different when drunk than touched), mellifluous, melty, oily, evaporating like alcohol, creamy, like snow, like sorbet, like nectar