A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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sensescape
The total sensory environment of a place — light, sound, smell, vibration — as experienced by the creatures living in it. A sensescape is not just what a place looks like; it’s what it sounds, smells, and feels like to every organism present. Degrade the sensescape and you degrade the habitat, even if it looks the same.
Etymology
Sense from Latin sensus (feeling, perception), from sentire (to feel, to perceive). -scape from Old English -scæpe (as in landscape), denoting a view or expanse taken in as a whole — here, everything perceived by the senses at once.