sensation
sen·sa·tion
noun
1.
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
- “a sensation of touch”
2.
3.
a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
- “anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear”
4.
5.
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
Origin
From Old French, from Medieval Latin sensatio, from Latin sensus.
Phrases
- double sensation
- sensation fiction
- sensation novel
- sensation play
- sensation time
- thermal sensation
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