sensation has definitions from the field of psychology
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[ noun ] (psychology) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

Examples

"a sensation of touch"

Used in print

(John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)

By `` image '' is meant not_only a visual presentation , but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith .

What Hume calls `` sensation '' is what Whitehead calls `` perception in the mode of presentational immediacy '' which is a sophisticated abstraction from perception in the mode of causal efficacy .

(Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)

Feeling useless seems generally to be an unpleasant sensation .

In a symposium and general exploration of the field of Person Perception and Interpersonal Behavior the discussion does not touch upon this aspect of the subject , with one possible exception ; Solomon_Asch shows the transcultural stability of metaphors based on sensation ( hot , sweet , bitter , etc . ) dealing with personal qualities of human_beings and events .

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[ noun ] someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

The rangy , Albany ( Cal. ) native , a surprise slugging sensation for the Flock last year as_well as a defensive whiz , set `` improved fielding '' as his 1961 goal .

Related terms

expert track_star star

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[ noun ] a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest

Examples

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

Used in print

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

The kiss outraged our friends but it was done and meanwhile had released in me all the remote , exciting premonitions of lust , all the mysterious sensations that I had imagined a truly consummated kiss would convey to me .

Related terms

stir

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[ noun ] a state of widespread public excitement and interest

Examples

"the news caused a sensation"

Related terms

excitement

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[ noun ] the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

Examples

"in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

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