Sensation
/senˈseɪʃən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA feeling experienced through the body or emotions.
nounA person or event that causes great public excitement.
Extra definitions
nounA physical feeling.
nounA strong impression.
nounExcitation of sensory organs.
Sentence Examples
The cold sensation faded.
She felt a strange sensation.
The singer became a sensation.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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Word Origin & History
From Old French, from Medieval Latin sensatio, from Latin sensus.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
“Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.”
— 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
“Confining ourselves, for the moment, to sensations, we find that there are different degrees of publicity attaching to different sorts of sensations. If you feel a toothache when the other people in the room do not, you are in no way surprised; but if you hear a clap of thunder when they do not, you begin to be alarmed as to your mental condition.”
— 1921, Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The cold ____ faded.