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. Natali Tene:

   Kind of like, mortified, disgusted, that sensation that this was not right. Overall, this was very uncomfortable.

2. Christina Hendricks:

   I don’t know, i don't think I’ve said goodbye. As I watch the last episode, maybe that will happen.It’s a very weird sensation. I just always have taken it for granted. Like, I still get to go back in six months and play her again. But not this time.

3. Shah Asad Rizvi:

   The sensation of movement guides and heals, for there is no other medicine like a dance that magnifies what you feel

4. Kathleen Cullen:

   There's a really profound fundamental thing that happens in the brain of people like dancers or skaters over lots and lots of practice. And that's basically a change in the way the brain is processing information, when you spin around, you're activating the semicircular canals, rotation sensors. They're filled with fluid and they're sensing your rotation. But when you stop, the fluid has inertia and it tends to continue to move. They actually get a false sensation of movement.

5. Edna Ferber:

   Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.