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sensation

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In psychology , sensation and perception are stages of processing of the senses in human and animal systems, such as vision , auditory , vestibular , and pain senses. Included in this topic is the study of illusions such as motion aftereffect , color constancy ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sensation \Sen*sa"tion\, n. [Cf. F. sensation. See Sensate .] (Physiol.) 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, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES tactile sensations ▪ tactile sensations tingling feeling/sensation ▪ Graham felt a tingling sensation in his hand. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE bodily ▪ We are justified in using it for a quality of material ...

Usage examples of sensation.

It was a position that gave, strangely, the sensations of both claustrophobia and acrophobia at the same time.

Momnets later, everyone still in the basket recognized the sensation as their craft ran aground on an oozy surface.

The sensation was so overwhelming that she barely noticed that Ambrose had changed positions and was now looming over her.

Scarcely had he done so, when the most curious sensation overcame him--a sensation of bewildering ecstasy as though he had drunk of some ambrosian nectar or magic drug which had suddenly wound up his nerves to an acute tension of indescribable delight.

And at times felt almost like the amputee who consciously knows a limb has been lost but continues to feel the sensations that no scalpel can sever.

The sensation sent a jolt of anguished awareness coursing through his body.

He was getting the oddest set of impressions, and there was a thrumming in his head, an annoying sensation, and something more.

Anesthesia was the loss of physical sensation, while analgesia was the inability to feel pain while conscious.

Thereupon I offered my arm to the handsome widow, who thought the arrangement according to the rules of etiquette and good breeding, and an approving look of my Lucrezia gave me the most agreeable sensation.

Each time we realize we have slipped away from present-moment attentiveness by drifting off into feelings and bodily sensations, we are to simply reinstate being present, open, and awake to the feelings and bodily sensations arising, enduring, and passing away within us.

An alien overfullness of sensation paralyzes the nerves, suspends the autonomic processes, hollows out a blank between action and reaction.

As if a wind had punched gaping holes through his brain, admitting a range of alien sensation, Jieret balked at the opened gateway to new knowledge.

He thanked de Batz warmly, and during the last half-hour, while the misanthropical lover spurned repentant Celimene, he was conscious of a curious sensation of impatience, a tingling of his nerves, a wild, mad longing to hear those full moist lips pronounce his name, and have those large brown eyes throw their half-veiled look into his own.

The bedin held me still without effort, his fingers twisting whatever he had put into me, the object persisting in its mild burning sensation.

On the Monday following the events narrated in the last chapter, George, now in an advanced stage of convalescence, though forbidden to go abroad for another fortnight, was sitting downstairs enjoying the warm sunshine, and the sensation of returning life and vigour that was creeping into his veins, when Lady Bellamy came into the room, bringing with her some medicine.