Sensation

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A perception associated with stimulation of a sense organ or with a specific body condition.
  • noun. The faculty to feel or perceive; physical sensibility.
  • noun. An indefinite generalized body feeling.
  • noun. A state of heightened interest or emotion.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A state of intense public interest and excitement.
  • noun. A cause of such interest and excitement.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The action, faculty, or immediate mental result of receiving a mental impression from any affection of the bodily organism; sensitive apprehension; corporeal feeling; any feeling; also, the elements of feeling or immediate consciousness and of consciousness of reaction in perception; the subjective element of perception.
  • noun. A state of interest or of feeling; especially, a state of excited interest or feeling.
  • noun. That which produces sensation or excited interest or feeling: as, the greatest sensation of the day.
  • noun. A hypothetical intensity of sensation which exists below the stimulus limen.
  • noun. A sense-distance or sense-interval, traversed in the direction opposite to that which has been chosen as the positive Thus, if Sm and Sn are two points upon the scale of brightness qualities such that the distance SmSn represents a just noticeable increase of brightness (positive), then the distance SnSm may be considered negative in regard to Sm-Sn.
  • noun. A sensation which lies to the right of the zero-point of the sensation-scale, that is, which belongs to the group of noticeable (as opposed to unnoticeable) sensations.
  • noun. A sense-step or sense-distance regarded as traversed in the opposite direction to that taken as negative. Thus, if the sense-distance Sn-Sm be looked upon as negative, then the sense-distance Sm-Sn is positive.
  • noun. Specifically, the sensations of dizziness furnished, in all probability, by the semicircular canals of the internal ear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
  • noun. A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
  • noun. A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
  • noun. A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
  • noun. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
  • noun. an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
  • noun. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
  • noun. a state of widespread public excitement and interest
  • Word Usage
    "Alas! it is the narrowness, selfishness, minuteness, of your sensation that you have to deplore in England at this day; —sensation which spends itself in bouquets and speeches; in revelings and junketings; in sham fights and gay puppet shows, while you can look on and see noble nations murdered, man by man, without an effort or a tear."
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