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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French, from Medieval Latin sensatio, from Latin sensus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sensation (countable and uncountable, plural sensations)
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
- 1921, Bertrand Russell, 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.
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Tremarn Case[1]:
- “Two or three months more went by; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […] ”
- 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.
- (slang, archaic) A small serving of gin or sherry.
- 1852, George Butler Earp, Gold Seeker's Manual (page 52)
- A Sensation . . . . Half-a-glass of sherry.
- 1869, Meliora (volume 12, page 47)
- When men go into a 'sluicery' for a 'sensation,' a 'drain,' or a 'common sewer,' they call the glass of gin they seek, in allusion to the juniper, a 'nipper,' or, more briefly, a 'nip,' occasionally a 'bite,' and not unfrequently it turns out a 'flogger.'
- 1852, George Butler Earp, Gold Seeker's Manual (page 52)
Hyponyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
physical feeling
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widespread excitement
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References[edit]
- (small serving of gin): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Further reading[edit]
- “sensation” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “sensation” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- sensation at OneLook Dictionary Search
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin sensationem, accusative of sensatio, from Latin sensus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sensation f (plural sensations)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “sensation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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