Search results
- DictionarySense of direction
- ▪ a person's ability to know without explicit guidance the direction in which they are or should be moving
Powered by Oxford Languages
Powered by Oxford Languages
Ability to perceive one's physical location
Sense of direction is the ability to know one's location and perform wayfinding. It is related to cognitive maps, spatial awareness, and spatial cognition. Sense of direction can be impaired by brain damage, such as in the case of topographical disorientation. Wikipedia