noun
an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
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a sensation of touch
• Syn: ↑sensation, ↑esthesis, ↑aesthesis, ↑sense experience, ↑sense datum
• 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
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noun : a psychical and physiological effect resulting directly from the excitation of a sense organ : sensation
Useful english dictionary. 2012.