meaning of sensation
1. An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
2. A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
3. A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
4. an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of
">touch"
Related Words
sensation | sensational | sensationalism | sensationalist | sensationalistic | sensationally |
