Dictionary Definition
sensation
Noun
1 an unelaborated elementary awareness of
stimulation; "a sensation of touch" [syn: sense
experience, sense
impression, sense
datum]
2 someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
[syn: ace, adept, champion, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]
3 a general feeling of excitement and heightened
interest; "anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere
between hope and fear"
4 a state of widespread public excitement and
interest; "the news caused a sensation"
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" [syn: sense, sentience, sentiency, sensory
faculty]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /sɛnseɪʃən/
Noun
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
Translations
physical feeling
- Finnish: tunne, tuntemus
- German: Sinneseindruck
- Spanish: sensación
widespread excitement
French
Pronunciation
- /sɑ̃sasjɔ̃/
- SAMPA: /sA~.sa.sjO~/
Noun
fr-noun fExtensive Definition
In psychology, sensation is the
first stage in the biochemical and neurologic events that begins
with the impinging of a stimulus
upon the receptor cells of a sensory
organ, which then leads to perception, the mental state
that is reflected in statements like "I see a uniformly blue wall."
In other words, sensations are the first stages in the functioning
of senses.
sensation in Estonian: Aisting
sensation in French: Sensation
sensation in Hebrew: תחושה
sensation in Italian: Sensazione
sensation in Portuguese: Sensação
sensation in Russian: Ощущение
sensation in Tagalog: Pakikiramdam
sensation in Ukrainian: Відчуття
sensation in Urdu: حس
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
affect,
affection, amazement, astonishing thing,
astonishment,
awareness, bang, bean, best seller, big hit,
bomb, bombshell, boot, brain, brilliant success, charge, commotion, consciousness, curiosity, emotion, emotional charge,
emotional shade, encephalon, exception, excitement, experience, fad, feeling, feeling tone, flush, foreboding, funny feeling,
gas, gasser, gazingstock, gray matter,
great success, gut reaction, head, heartthrob, hit, hunch, impression, jollies, kick, killing, lift, marvel, marvelment, meteoric success,
miracle, momentary
success, noddle, noggin, nonesuch, noodle, organ of thought,
passion, pate, perception, phenomenon, portent, prescience, presentiment, prodigy, profound sense, quite a
thing, quiver, rarity, reaction, resounding triumph,
response, riot, roaring success, rush, rush of emotion, sconce, seat of thought, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensorium, sensory, sentiment, shiver, shudder, sight, smash, smash hit, sneaking
suspicion, something else, spectacle, stir, stunner, success, surge of emotion,
susceptibility,
suspicion, thrill, tingle, tingling, titillation, tremor, tremor of excitement,
triumph, undercurrent, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment, wow