sensation
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[edit] Etymology
From Old French, from Medieval Latin sensation, from Latin sensus.
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[edit] Noun
sensation (plural sensations)
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- 1921, Bertrand Russel, The Analysis of Mind:
- Confining ourselves, for the moment, to sensations, we find that there are different degrees of publicity attaching to different sorts of sensations. If you feel a toothache when the other people in the room do not, you are in no way surprised; but if you hear a clap of thunder when they do not, you begin to be alarmed as to your mental condition.
- 1921, Bertrand Russel, The Analysis of Mind:
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
- 1937, H. P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep:
- Young Derby's odd genius developed remarkably, and in his eighteenth year his collected nightmare-lyrics made a real sensation when issued under the title Azathoth and Other Horrors.
- 1937, H. P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep:
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physical feeling
widespread excitement
[edit] External links
- sensation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- sensation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- sensation at OneLook Dictionary Search
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From mediaeval Latin sensationem, from Latin sensus.
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[edit] Noun
sensation f. (plural sensations)
