Synonyms for sensation
sɛnˈseɪ ʃənsen·sa·tion

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1. sensation

   Sensation is the mind's consciousness due to a bodily affection, as of heat or cold; perception is the cognition of some external object which is the cause or occasion of the sensation; the sensation of heat may be connected with the perception of a fire. While sensations are connected with the body, emotions, as joy, grief, etc., are wholly of the mind. "As the most of them [the sensations] are positively agreeable or the opposite, they are nearly akin to those emotions, as hope or terror, or those passions, as anger and envy, which are acknowledged by all to belong exclusively to the spirit, and to involve no relation whatever to matter or the bodily organism. Such feelings are not infrequently styled sensations, though improperly." Porter Human Intellect § 112, p. 128. [Chas. Scribner's Sons '90.] Feeling is a general term popularly denoting what is felt, whether through the body or by the mind alone, and includes both sensation and emotion. A sense is an organ or faculty of sensation or of perception.

   Synonyms:
   emotion, feeling, perception, sense

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. sensation

   Synonyms:
   affection, apprehension, sentiment, feeling, perception, surprise, impression

   Antonyms:
   apathy, insensibility, nonperception, unsurprise

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.3 / 4 votes

1. sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datumnoun

   an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

   "a sensation of touch"

   Synonyms:
   virtuoso, star, sentience, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, esthesis, sentiency, sense impression, maven, ace, genius, sense datum, hotshot, wiz, adept, wizard, sense experience, sensory faculty, sense, whizz

2. ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiznoun

   someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

   Synonyms:
   esthesis, wiz, whiz, brain, one, sense, asterisk, maven, protagonist, ace, paladin, angiotensin-converting enzyme, unity, whizz, friend, headliner, thaumaturgist, principal, sensory faculty, necromancer, thaumaturge, booster, lead, sense experience, hotshot, brilliance, hero, star topology, wizardry, mavin, brainiac, single, genius, star, title-holder, angiotensin converting enzyme, sense datum, flair, virtuoso, fighter, wizard, magician, supporter, sorcerer, aesthesis, sense impression, adept, sentience, superstar, champ, mastermind, admirer, champion, sentiency

3. sensationnoun

   a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest

   "anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear"

   Synonyms:
   virtuoso, star, sentience, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, esthesis, sentiency, sense impression, maven, ace, genius, sense datum, hotshot, wiz, adept, wizard, sense experience, sensory faculty, sense, whizz

4. sensationnoun

   a state of widespread public excitement and interest

   "the news caused a sensation"

   Synonyms:
   virtuoso, star, sentience, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, esthesis, sentiency, sense impression, maven, ace, genius, sense datum, hotshot, wiz, adept, wizard, sense experience, sensory faculty, sense, whizz

5. sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory facultynoun

   the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

   "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

   Synonyms:
   adept, sentience, hotshot, virtuoso, good sense, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, sentiency, mother wit, esthesis, awareness, horse sense, ace, genius, mavin, common sense, sense datum, maven, wiz, signified, sense impression, wizard, star, sense experience, sensory faculty, gumption, sense, whizz

Matched Categories

1. • Excitement
   • Expert
   • Stir

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. sensationnoun

   Synonyms:
   feeling (without perception or a reference to any object that causes the feeling), sense

2. sensationnoun

   Synonyms:
   excitement, impression

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1. sensationnoun

   Synonyms:
   consciousness, feeling, perception, excitement

   Associated words:
   æsthesiology, sensorium, sentient, sensific, sensory, sentiency, insentient, sensifacient, sensiferous, sensificatory, sensitive, æsthesiometer, æsthesiogen, catalepsy, anæsthesia

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1. List of paraphrases for "sensation":

   feeling, sense, sensitivity

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How to use sensation in a sentence?

1. James Rogers:

   I heard a loud bang and then felt a burning sensation in my arm and fell to the ground, before I could look at my wound I did a quick check of the perimeter and I saw nothing.

2. Darius Paduch:

   Out of the men I see with abrupt changes in sexual function—either decreased sensation of orgasm or decreased sensitivity in the penis—I’ll diagnose one third with diabetes.

3. Joy Behar:

   This guy, he’s a singular sensation in a certain way, you know what I mean ? i do n’t know that he has that much support in his country … and maybe that has to be addressed because we’ve seen this movie before.

4. Charlotte Brontë:

   Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

5. Yeonmi Park:

   I didn't even see the movie yet, but it will be a really big sensation in North Korea if they see that movie.