sensation

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

noun

1. an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation (Freq. 14)
- a sensation of touch
• Syn:
esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum
• Derivationally related forms:
sense
• Hypernyms:
perception
• Hyponyms:
threshold, limen, masking, vision, visual sensation,
smell, odor, odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception, taste,
taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception, sound, auditory sensation,
synesthesia, synaesthesia
2. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
ace, adept, champion, maven, mavin,
virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz,
whizz, wizard, wiz
• Derivationally related forms:
star (for: star), virtuoso (for: virtuoso), adept (for: adept), ace (for: ace)
• Hypernyms:
expert
• Hyponyms:
track star
3. a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest (Freq. 1)
- anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear
• Hypernyms:
stir
4. a state of widespread public excitement and interest
- the news caused a sensation
• Hypernyms:
excitement, excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervour
5. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
• Syn:
sense, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
• Derivationally related forms:
sentient (for: sentiency), sentient (for: sentience), sense, sensorial (for: sense), sensuous (for: sense), sense (for: sense), sensify (for: sense)
• Hypernyms:
faculty, mental faculty, module
• Hyponyms:
modality, sense modality, sensory system, sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sense, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum