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TL;DR The traditional view is that humans have 5 basic senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste), but modern science recognizes many more. Here's a concise li

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The traditional view is that humans have 5 basic senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste), but modern science recognizes many more. Here's a concise list of 22 senses humans may possess:

  1. Sight (vision)
  2. Hearing (audition)
  3. Touch (tactioception)
  4. Smell (olfaction)
  5. Taste (gustation)
  6. Balance (equilibrioception)
  7. Temperature (thermoception)
  8. Pain (nociception)
  9. Proprioception (body position)
  10. Kinesthesia (movement)
  11. Time (chronoception)
  12. Hunger
  13. Thirst
  14. Fullness
  15. Magnetoreception (controversial in humans)
  16. Itching
  17. Pressure
  18. Tension
  19. Stretch
  20. Chemoreception (internal)
  21. Equilibrioception (balance and acceleration)
  22. Interoception (internal body sensations)

This list is not exhaustive, and there's ongoing debate about which sensations constitute distinct senses.

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