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Meaning of 'sensation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sensation [ n.]
- 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.
- A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
- A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.

Meaning of 'sensation' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sensation [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
Example in sentence:
  • a sensation of touch
Meaning (2):
- a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
Example in sentence:
  • anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear
Meaning (3):
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Example in sentence:
  • in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
Meaning (4):
- a state of widespread public excitement and interest
Example in sentence:
  • the news caused a sensation

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