sensation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French, from Medieval Latin sensatio, from Latin sensus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sensation (plural sensations)
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, The Purchase Price:
- 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.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, The Purchase Price:
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, 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.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, The Tremarn Case[1]:
Hyponyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
physical feeling
widespread excitement
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External links[edit]
- 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
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin sensationem, accusative of sensatio, from Latin sensus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sensation f (plural sensations)
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