SENSATION
\sɛnsˈe͡ɪʃən], \sɛnsˈeɪʃən], \s_ɛ_n_s_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of SENSATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
Sort: Oldest first
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
-
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.
-
A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
-
A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
By Oddity Software
-
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.
-
A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
-
A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
By Noah Webster.
-
Transduction of physical or chemical changes in the external or internal environment into nerve impulses by specialized receptors, transmission of these impulses by afferent neurons to the effectors, either directly or through the CNS.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
-
A state of feeling produced by the action of an outside force upon the body; a mental impression resulting from a bodily feeling; power to feel; as, anesthetics cause loss of sensation; state of excited feeling or interest, or its cause; as, a sensation was caused by the playing of the great violinist.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
-
The translation into consciousness of the effects of a stimulus exciting any of the organs of sense.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
-
Perception by the senses: feeling excited by external objects, by the state of the body, or by immaterial objects: a state of excited feeling: an unexpected or startling news item or other article in the newspapers: any surprising or shocking intelligence.
-
SENSATIONAL.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
-
Perception by the senses; an impression on the mind or the brain by means of the senses; a feeling; a state of excited interest or feeling, or that which produces it.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
-
An impression made on the mind through any one of the senses; a state of interest or feeling excited or awakened in the mind by external objects, by the passions, by the internal condition of the body, or by the words of a speaker.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
-
A conscious impression produced on the higher cerebral centers by external objects through the medium of the organs of sense and their connecting nerves.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
-
n. [French] The perception of external objects by means of the bodily senses; the effect produced on the sensorium, or centre and seat of feeling, by something acting on the bodily organs or nerves—impressions produced by a foreign body on an organ of sense; impression in the living system produced by the actions of its own parts or organs ;—in philosophy, mental faculty by which we acquire the knowledge of objects and of their qualities; perception ; apprehension; — the faculty of apprehending beauty, harmony, novelty sublimity, &c.; emotional or artistic sense;—hence, generally, any impression made upon the mind; strong feeling of interest; agreeable or disagreeable feelings produced by the exhibition or description of scones, incidents, or characters, whether real or fictitious; excitement; commotion.
