sensation
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,763 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,015 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation also: esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum a sensation of touch
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field also: ace, adept, champion, maven, mavin, virtuoso
- a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear
- a state of widespread public excitement and interest the news caused a sensation
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended also: sense, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
sensation in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A curious sensation of terror came over me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Again that feeling swept over me--that curious sensation of being defiant against myself.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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Her sensation was terrible, such as if her whole blood had suddenly escaped through her open arteries.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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The booming basses and baritones of the big fellows made him shiver with a curious bitter-sweet sensation never experienced before.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1