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Sensation

noun

An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation. Synonyms: aesthesis, esthesis, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression.

Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard.

A general feeling of excitement and heightened interest.

A state of widespread public excitement and interest.

The faculty through which the external world is apprehended. Synonyms: sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency.

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... sensation of a sort of bitter hatred for Sonia passed through his heart. As it were wondering and frightened of this sensation, he raised his head and looked intently at her; but he met her uneasy and painfully anxious eyes fixed on him; there was ...

— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... one of those ugly five-story apartment boxes that spring like weeds in old towns and cities. As I lingered in front of the brick wall that I judged must very nearly cover the site of my birthplace, I tried to understand the sensation of utter unfamiliarity with which the whole place filled me. The answer came to me in a flash as I turned away from Fuller Place,—Clark's Field no longer existed! Its place was completely filled by the maze of brick and ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... Gradually the attitude of the man at her side had begun to change. Often she surprised him devouring her with his eyes. Steadily the former sensation of previous acquaintanceship urged itself upon her. Somewhere, sometime before she had known this man. It was evident that he had not shaved for several days. A blonde stubble had commenced to cover his neck and cheeks and chin, and with it the assurance that he ...

— The Son of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... republics, founded upon communistic principles, of which Plato's well-known treatise is the best example. His 'Republic' had been written, and probably delivered in the form of oral lectures at Athens, only two or three years before, and had no doubt excited a considerable sensation. But many of its most startling principles had long ago ...

— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al

... wife. As he records at the time of his marriage, "My wife was aged between 25 and 26, but she scarcely appeared more than 18 or 20. Her beauty and accomplishments, her skill and fidelity in sketching, and above all her exquisite singing of ballads, made a great sensation ...

— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy

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