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

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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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1. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov:

   Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

2. John Rogers:

   I would say a gentle touch or kind of a stroke, a type of sensation that you might feel if you rub your finger across your skin.

3. A. M. Rosenthal:

   If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

4. Jasmine Sanders:

   You know, I started modeling really young, i was 12 when I first started. And then when I finished school, 17 turning 18, I moved to Paris. That was a huge change for me. I was never an overnight sensation. My success has been years of hard work and I’ve been doing this for a long time. I really had to put all my time and energy into my goals.

5. Darius Paduch:

   Testosterone is a huge modifier of your sensation of orgasm.