sensation
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(noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch" |
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Synonyms: sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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Related Words: auditory sensation, gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, limen, odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, perception, smell, sound, synaesthesia, synesthesia, taste, taste perception, taste sensation, threshold, vision, visual sensation |
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(noun) a general feeling of excitement; "the announcement caused a sensation" |
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Related Words: stir |
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(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended |
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Synonyms: sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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Related Words: faculty, mental faculty, modality, module, sense modality, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensory system |
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(noun) someone who is very highly skilled |
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Synonyms: ace, adept, genius, hotshot, maven, star, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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Related Words: expert, track star |
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