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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 stimulationplay

2. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any fieldplay

3. a general feeling of excitement and heightened interestplay

4. a state of widespread public excitement and interestplay

5. the faculty through which the external world is apprehendedplay

  Familiarity information: SENSATION used as a noun is common.


 Dictionary entry details 


SENSATION (noun)


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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