Main entry: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency
Definition: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
Usage: in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
Main entry: esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression, aesthesis
Definition: an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
Usage: a sensation of touch
Main entry: sensation
Definition: a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
Usage: anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear
Main entry: ace, adept, superstar, champion, sensation, star, genius, whiz, whizz, virtuoso, wiz, wizard, maven, mavin, hotshot
Definition: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Main entry: sensation
Definition: a state of widespread public excitement and interest
Usage: the news caused a sensation