Definitions for sensation
sɛnˈseɪ ʃənsen·sa·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datumnoun

   an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

   "a sensation of touch"

2. ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiznoun

   someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

3. sensationnoun

   a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest

   "anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear"

4. sensationnoun

   a state of widespread public excitement and interest

   "the news caused a sensation"

5. sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory facultynoun

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. sensationnoun

   A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.

2. sensationnoun

   A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sensationnoun

   Perception by means of the senses.

   Etymology: sensation, French; sensatio, school Latin.

   Diversity of constitution, or other circumstances, vary the sensations; and to them of Java pepper is cold. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

   The brain, distempered by a cold, beating against the root of the auditory nerve, and protracted to the tympanum, causes the sensation of noise. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.

   This great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses, and derived by them to the understanding, I call sensation. John Locke.

   When we are asleep, joy and sorrow give us more vigorous sensations of pain or pleasure than at any other time. Addison.

   The happiest, upon a fair estimate, have stronger sensations of pain than pleasure. John Rogers.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.5 / 2 votes

1. Sensationnoun

   an impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body

2. Sensationnoun

   a purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material

3. Sensationnoun

   a state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Sensation

   Sensation is the fiction-writing mode for portraying a character's perception of the senses. According to Ron Rozelle, “. . .the success of your story or novel will depend on many things, but the most crucial is your ability to bring your reader into it. And that reader will be most completely in when you deliver the actual sensations of the many things that comprise your story”. As stated by Jessica Page Morrell, “You breathe life into fiction by translating the senses onto the page, producing stories rooted in the physical world . . . that creates a tapestry, a galaxy of interwoven sensory ingredients.” Also according to Rozelle, “The sensation of what something feels like is used to describe everything from sensual pleasure to pain and torture. It’s a wide range, and your readers have actually experienced only some of those feelings. So your job is to either make them recall exactly what it feels like when something occurs in your story or, if they haven’t experienced it, what it would feel like if they did”. Morrell describes a “sensory surround,” which when “coupled with drama tugs the reader into [the] story and forces him to keep reading.”

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sensation

   sen-sā′shun, n. perception by the senses: the change in consciousness which results from the transmission of nervous impulses to the brain, feeling excited by external objects, by the state of the body, or by immaterial objects: a state of excited feeling.—adjs. Sen′sāte, -d, perceived by the senses; Sensā′tional, pertaining to sensation: having sensation: intended as a literary work to excite violent emotions: adhering to a philosophical sensationalism.—ns. Sensā′tionalism, the doctrine that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and that there are no innate ideas: sensualism: sensational writing; Sensā′tionalist, a believer in sensationalism: a sensational writer.—adj. Sensātionalist′ic.—adv. Sensā′tionally.—adjs. Sen′sative; Sensatō′rial, pertaining to sensation.—Sensation novels, novels that deal in violent effects, strained emotion, and usually improbable situations.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Sensation

   The process in which specialized SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS transduce peripheral stimuli (physical or chemical) into NERVE IMPULSES which are then transmitted to the various sensory centers in the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'sensation' in Nouns Frequency: #1932

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sensation in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sensation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of sensation in a Sentence

1. Pope Francis:

   Four or five years, i do not know, even two or three. Two have already passed. It is a somewhat vague sensation. Maybe it's like the psychology of the gambler who convinces himself he will lose, so he won't be disappointed and if he wins, is happy. I do not know.

2. Charlotte Brontë:

   Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

3. Caroline Weaver:

   A lot of our customers are people who happen to be walking by, and they come in a little surprised and amused by a shop that just sells pencils, but we also get a lot of word-of-mouth business from journalists, designers, architects and kids coming in after school. I love seeing kids get excited about pencils. Adults remember the smell, the tactile sensation of writing with a freshly sharpened pencil.

4. Futuro Surf:

   From dawn of creation. Passion burning sensation. To make reality of imagination. Fear not the dissenters, prove them wrong their bitter sight. Forget not the believers Out of love prove them right. Oh great dreamer I call upon you. Your power, manifest. Shine your light upon this world forever. Til your vessel takes its rest.

5. Joel Salinas:

   I felt this subtle sensation in my chest and this rising kind of feeling in the shoulders. I recommended a CT scan just to be sure and it later showed she had a blood clot in her lungs, i wouldn’t have been able to pick up on that if it wasn’t for the mirror-touch.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sensation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sensation
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=sensation
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sensation
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=sensation
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=sensation