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- English Word Sensation Definition An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
- English Word Sensation Definition A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
- English Word Sensation Definition A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
- English Word Sensational Definition Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.
- English Word Sensational Definition Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.
- English Word Sensational Definition Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.
- English Word Sensationalism Definition The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.
- English Word Sensationalism Definition The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.
- English Word Sensationalist Definition An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
- English Word Sensationalist Definition One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
- English Word Sense Definition A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
- English Word Sense Definition Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
- English Word Sense Definition Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
- English Word Sense Definition Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
- English Word Sense Definition That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
- English Word Sense Definition Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
- English Word Sense Definition Moral perception or appreciation.
- English Word Sense Definition One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
- English Word Sense Definition To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
- English Word Sensed Definition of Sense
- English Word Senseful Definition Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.
- English Word Senseless Definition Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
- English Word Sensery Definition Same as Sensorium.
- English Word Sensibilities Definition of Sensibility
- English Word Sensibility Definition The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
- English Word Sensibility Definition The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural.
- English Word Sensibility Definition Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
- English Word Sensibility Definition That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
- English Word Sensible Definition Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.
- English Word Sensible Definition Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.