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VISUAL SENSATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does visual sensation mean?
• VISUAL SENSATION (noun)
The noun VISUAL SENSATION has 1 sense:
1. the perceptual experience of seeing
Familiarity information: VISUAL SENSATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The perceptual experience of seeing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
vision; visual sensation
Context example:
he had a visual sensation of intense light
Hypernyms ("visual sensation" is a kind of...):
aesthesis; esthesis; sensation; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression (an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation)
Context examples
An objective visual sensation that appears with the eyes closed and in the absence of visual light.
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