# sentics

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The study of waveforms of touch, emotion, and music.
2. Common affective patterns associated with natural language concepts exploited for tasks such as emotion recognition from text/speech or sentiment analysis.

## Etymology
From Latin sentiō + -ics. Instigated and named by Austrian neuroscientist Manfred Clynes.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sentics