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entoperipheral en · ADJ

Etymology

From ento- + peripheral.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances.
    • 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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epiperipheral