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SENSATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sensation mean?
• SENSATION (noun)
The noun SENSATION has 5 senses:
1. an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
2. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
3. a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
4. a state of widespread public excitement and interest
5. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Familiarity information: SENSATION used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
aesthesis; esthesis; sensation; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression
Context example:
a sensation of touch
Hypernyms ("sensation" is a kind of...):
perception (the process of perceiving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sensation"):
limen; threshold (the smallest detectable sensation)
masking (the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation)
vision; visual sensation (the perceptual experience of seeing)
odor; odour; olfactory perception; olfactory sensation; smell (the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form)
gustatory perception; gustatory sensation; taste; taste perception; taste sensation (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus)
auditory sensation; sound (the subjective sensation of hearing something)
synaesthesia; synesthesia (a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated)
Derivation:
sense (perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ace; adept; champion; genius; hotshot; maven; mavin; sensation; star; superstar; virtuoso; whiz; whizz; wiz; wizard
Hypernyms ("sensation" is a kind of...):
expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sensation"):
track star (a star runner)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Context example:
anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear
Hypernyms ("sensation" is a kind of...):
stir (emotional agitation and excitement)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A state of widespread public excitement and interest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
the news caused a sensation
Hypernyms ("sensation" is a kind of...):
excitation; excitement; fervor; fervour; inflammation (the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency
Context example:
in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
Hypernyms ("sensation" is a kind of...):
faculty; mental faculty; module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sensation"):
modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)
sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)
Derivation:
sense (perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles)
Context examples
Clinical manifestations may include pain, weakness and loss of sensation along the course of the involved nerve root.
(Nerve Root Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Impulse giving rise to sensations of pain.
(Nociceptive Impulse, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder characterized by marked discomfort sensation in the neck area.
(Neck Pain, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
A sensation of discomfort or distress that is persistant and continuous.
(Nagging Pain, NCI Thesaurus)
A sensation of discomfort or distress that renders an individual unable to find any happiness.
(Miserable Pain, NCI Thesaurus)
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
An impulse that gives rise to sensations of pain.
(Nociceptive Stimulus, NCI Thesaurus)
The loss of the sensation of feeling in an area of the body.
(Numbness, NCI Thesaurus)
Anatomic structures in the head responsible for special sensations rather than general sensations.
(Organ of Special Sense, NCI Thesaurus)
Any component associated with the anatomic structures in the head responsible for special sensations rather than general sensations, including the eyes, ears, nose, and tongue.
(Organ of Special Sense Part, NCI Thesaurus)
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