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entoperipheral

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: human-sciences, medicine, physiology, psychology, sciences

Examples

  • 1870-1880, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology On comparing these three great orders of feelings, we found that whereas the epiperipheral are relational to a very great extent, the entoperipheral, and still more the central , have but small aptitudes for entering into relations

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History

Etymology

From ento- + peripheral.