SENSATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensation mean? 

• SENSATION (noun)
  The noun SENSATION has 5 senses:

1. an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
2. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
3. a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
4. a state of widespread public excitement and interest
5. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

  Familiarity information: SENSATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSATION (noun)

Meaning:

An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

sense impression; sense experience; sense datum; sensation; esthesis; aesthesis

Context example:

a sensation of touch

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

perception (the process of perceiving)

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

synaesthesia; synesthesia (a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated)

auditory sensation; sound (the subjective sensation of hearing something)

gustatory perception; gustatory sensation; taste; taste perception; taste sensation (the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus)

odor; odour; olfactory perception; olfactory sensation; smell (the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form)

vision; visual sensation (the perceptual experience of seeing)

masking (the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation)

limen; threshold (the smallest detectable sensation)

Meaning:

Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

whizz; whiz; virtuoso; superstar; mavin; maven; hotshot; wizard; adept; wiz; sensation; star; genius; ace; champion

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

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

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

track star (a star runner)

Meaning:

A general feeling of excitement and heightened interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear

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

stir (emotional agitation and excitement)

Meaning:

A state of widespread public excitement and interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

the news caused a sensation

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

excitation; excitement; fervor; fervour; inflammation (the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up)

Meaning:

The faculty through which the external world is apprehended

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

sensory faculty; sentiency; sentience; sense; sensation

Context example:

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

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

faculty; mental faculty; module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)

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

modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)

sensibility; sensitiveness; sensitivity ((physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation)