sensation
IPA: sɛnsˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- Ongoing sensory activity.
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
- (figurative, uncommon, dated) A remarkable person.
- (slang, archaic) A small serving of gin or sherry.
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Examples of "sensation" in Sentences
- The term sensation is at present employed in the same ill-considered manner.
- "The main sensation is that there have been no sensations today," Mr. Azarov said.
- In psychology, however, the term sensation has been used in two somewhat different meanings.
- "Besides," continued Becker, "if plants really existed, possessing what is understood by the term sensation, they would be animals."
- It is sensation viewed especially in regard to its object -- _representative sensation_, or the "sensible idea" of modern philosophy.
- Sexual excitement is accompanied throughout by a sensation of pleasure, specifically known as _voluptuous pleasure_, the _voluptuous sensation_, or simply _voluptuousness_ (in Latin, _libido sexualis_).
- If all of reality is finally reducible to sensations, then the term sensation must be used in a new sense to connote a self-subsistent being, and can no longer refer merely to a function of certain physiological processes.
- On this second point I will offer, for the time being, one simple remark: we use the term sensation for lack of any other to express the intermediate character of our perception of objects; and this use does not, on our part, imply any hypothesis.
- Alas! it is the narrowness, selfishness, minuteness, of your sensation that you have to deplore in England at this day; sensation which spends itself in bouquets and speeches; in revelings and junketings; in sham fights and gay puppet shows, while you can look on and see noble nations murdered, man by man, without an effort or a tear.
- If one adopts (b), and something like a Sellarsian or Davidsonian distinction between sensation and thought, putting phenomenal character exclusively on the ˜sensation™ side, and intentionality exclusively on the ˜thought™ side of this divide, the place of consciousness in a philosophical account of knowledge will likely be meager ” at most phenomenal character will be a causal condition, without a role to play in the warrant or justification of claims to knowledge.
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