Definition of "sensation" []

• A perception associated with stimulation of a sense organ or with a specific body condition: the sensation of heat; a visual sensation. (noun)
• The faculty to feel or perceive; physical sensibility: The patient has very little sensation left in the right leg. (noun)
• An indefinite generalized body feeling: a sensation of lightness. (noun)
• A state of heightened interest or emotion: "The anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhat between bliss and fear” ( James Weldon Johnson). (noun)
• A state of intense public interest and excitement: "The purser made a sensation as sailors like to do, by predicting a storm” ( Evelyn Waugh). (noun)

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• "Alas! it is the narrowness, selfishness, minuteness, of your sensation that you have to deplore in England at this day; —sensation which spends itself in bouquets and speeches; in revelings and junketings; in sham fights and gay puppet shows, while you can look on and see noble nations murdered, man by man, without an effort or a tear."
• "Sexual excitement is accompanied throughout by a sensation of pleasure, specifically known as _voluptuous pleasure_, the _voluptuous sensation_, or simply _voluptuousness_ (in Latin, _libido sexualis_)."
• "It is sensation viewed especially in regard to its object -- _representative sensation_, or the "sensible idea" of modern philosophy."