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visual sensation

n. the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" [syn: vision]

Usage examples of "visual sensation".

Or, at least, the bat's sensation of her mate may be no more different from my visual sensation of a flamingo, than my visual sensation of a flamingo is different from a flamingo's visual sensation of a flamingo.

Dust motes picked it up, making the view ahead and behind a marvel of visual sensation.

Impossible colors and borealis blankets of visual sensation wove through the other nerve assaults.

Being on the open road with landscapes ever changing, Edgler Vess is the recipient of a constant influx of fresh visual sensation.

Its dark, midnight hue swallowed up visual sensation as it swallowed up most sound.

In like manner, the context of visual sensation for physics is physical, and outside the brain.

The context of visual sensation for psychology is quite different.

Suppose, for example, the visual sensation is tat of a telegram saying that you are ruined.

As far as I can understand it, when I show a film they could get it from one representative of each sex, but, presumably, in the transmission of visual sensation something is lost, for they all very much prefer to see it with their own eyes.