| sensation | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression | an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation.; "a sensation of touch" |
| ~ perception | the process of perceiving. |
| ~ limen, threshold | the smallest detectable sensation. |
| ~ masking | the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation.; "he studied auditory masking by pure tones" |
| ~ visual sensation, vision | the perceptual experience of seeing.; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" |
| ~ odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell, odor | the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.; "she loved the smell of roses" |
| ~ 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.; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste" |
| ~ auditory sensation, sound | the subjective sensation of hearing something.; "he strained to hear the faint sounds" |
| ~ synaesthesia, synesthesia | a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated. |
| n. (person) | 2. ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard | someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. |
| ~ expert | a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully. |
| ~ track star | a star runner. |
| n. (feeling) | 3. sensation | a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest.; "anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear" |
| ~ stir | emotional agitation and excitement. |
| n. (state) | 4. sensation | a state of widespread public excitement and interest.; "the news caused a sensation" |
| ~ excitation, fervour, excitement, fervor, inflammation | the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up.; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation" |
| n. (cognition) | 5. sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency | 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" |
| ~ faculty, mental faculty, module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
| ~ sense modality, sensory system, modality | a particular sense. |
| ~ sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation.; "sensitivity to pain" |
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