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:
- Sight (vision)
- Hearing (audition)
- Touch (tactioception)
- Smell (olfaction)
- Taste (gustation)
- Balance (equilibrioception)
- Temperature (thermoception)
- Pain (nociception)
- Proprioception (body position)
- Kinesthesia (movement)
- Time (chronoception)
- Hunger
- Thirst
- Fullness
- Magnetoreception (controversial in humans)
- Itching
- Pressure
- Tension
- Stretch
- Chemoreception (internal)
- Equilibrioception (balance and acceleration)
- Interoception (internal body sensations)
This list is not exhaustive, and there’s ongoing debate about which sensations constitute distinct senses.
