AURA (aurae)

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Irregular inflected form: aurae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does aura mean? 

• AURA (noun)
  The noun AURA has 3 senses:

1. a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure

2. an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

3. a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing

  Familiarity information: AURA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("aura" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

aura; aureole; gloriole; glory; halo; nimbus

Hypernyms ("aura" is a kind of...):

light; lightness (the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

air; atmosphere; aura

Context example:

the place had an aura of romance

Hypernyms ("aura" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aura"):

mystique (an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing)

note (a characteristic emotional quality)

vibe; vibration (a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively)

 Context examples 

A symptomatic form of epilepsy often preceded by an aura; characterized by loss of consciousness with generalized tonic- clonic seizures.

(Grand Mal Seizure, Food and Drug Administration)

I exude it round me; it is an aura.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Et cela doit signifier, said she, qu'il y aura la dedans un cadeau pour moi, et peut-etre pour vous aussi, mademoiselle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This type of seizure may be preceded by an aura and is frequently followed by a period of confusion and lethargy (post-ictal state).

(Grand Mal Seizure, NCI Thesaurus)

Saturn will add to your aura of authority, and you will garner much respect.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She was very sensitive to impressions, and it was not strange, after all, that this aura of a traveller from another world should so affect her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Symptoms vary with different lesion locations and may include but not limited to the motor (e.g. rhythmic muscle contractions in one area of the body), somatosensory and sensory alterations manifested by abnormal numbness, paresthesias or other hallucinations, including several types of aura; autonomic and psychic symptoms, e.g. with changes in speech, thought, personality, mood, sensation of deja vu or hallucinations.

(Partial Seizure, NCI Thesaurus)

Enough then, that I not only recognised my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence of certain of the powers that made up my spirit, but managed to compound a drug by which these powers should be dethroned from their supremacy, and a second form and countenance substituted, none the less natural to me because they were the expression, and bore the stamp of lower elements in my soul.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)