| 单词 | sensation |
| 释义 | sensation (once / 166 pages) n A sensation is a type of feeling, picked up by one of the five senses. Peppercorns will give you the sensation of a million tiny pinpricks on your tongue. A sensation is something from your senses. If you lose sensation in your feet, they are numb and it's time for you to get up and move around to restore blood flow. You can call something a sensation if it is wonderful and astonishing. Your parents will tell you that you were a sensation in the school play. Everyone will want to go see the special-effects movie that critics are calling a worldwide sensation. WORD FAMILYsensation: aftersensation, sensational, sensations+/desensitise: desensitisation, desensitising/desensitize: desensitization, desensitized, desensitizes, desensitizing/hypersensitive: hypersensitively, hypersensitivity/insensibility: insensibilities/insensible: insensibility, insensibly/insensitive: insensitively, insensitiveness, insensitivity/insensitivity: insensitivities/nonsense: nonsenses, nonsensical/nonsensical: nonsensicalest, nonsensicality, nonsensically/oversensitive: oversensitively, oversensitiveness/sensational: sensationalism, sensationally, unsensational/sensationalism: sensationalisms, sensationalist, sensationalistic/sensationalist: sensationalists/sense: nonsense, sensation, sensed, senseless, senses, sensible, sensing, sensitive, sensor, sensorial, sensuous/senseless: senselessly, senselessness/sensibility: sensibilities/sensible: insensible, sensibilise, sensibility, sensibilize, sensibleness, sensibler, sensiblest, sensibly/sensitise: desensitise, sensitisation, sensitised, sensitiser, sensitising/sensitised: hypersensitised, supersensitised/sensitiser: sensitisers/sensitive: hypersensitive, insensitive, nonsensitive, oversensitive, sensitise, sensitively, sensitiveness, sensitives, sensitivity, sensitize, supersensitive/sensitiveness: sensitivenesses/sensitivity: sensitivities/sensitize: desensitize, sensitization, sensitized, sensitizer, sensitizes, sensitizing/sensitized: hypersensitized, supersensitized/sensitizer: sensitizers/sensor: sensors/sensorial: sensorially/sensuous: sensuously, sensuousness/supersensitive: supersensitively/unsensational: unsensationally USAGE EXAMPLESRomo returned to the roster in November as Prescott's backup, saying the rookie sensation "earned the right to be our quarterback." Reuters(Jan 01, 2017) The bland, mouth-coating sensation of the powdered beans with which they are dusted is pleasant, but not compelling. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) The Deceptive Bike Box. A mild sensation online, this object from the oft-neglected packaging category may be the year’s most cunning design solution. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) 1n an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation a sensation of touch Syn|Hypo|Hyper aesthesis, esthesis, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression limen, threshold the smallest detectable sensation maskingthe blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation vision, visual sensationthe perceptual experience of seeing odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smellthe sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensationthe sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus auditory sensation, soundthe subjective sensation of hearing something synaesthesia, synesthesiaa sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated absolute thresholdthe lowest level of stimulation that a person can detect difference limen, difference threshold, differential limen, differential thresholdthe smallest change in stimulation that a person can detect scentan odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced aroma, fragrance, perfume, scenta distinctive odor that is pleasant fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench, stinka distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant flavor, flavour, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tangthe taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth sugariness, sweet, sweetnessthe taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth sour, sourness, tartnessthe taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth bitter, bitternessthe taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth acridityhaving an acrid smell salinity, salt, saltinessthe taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth astringence, astringencya sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker finish(wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed) flatnessa deficiency in flavor mellownessa taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor euphony, musicany agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds music(music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) pure tone, tonea steady sound without overtones dissonance, noise, racketthe auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience dubthe new sounds added by dubbing chromaesthesia, chromesthesiaa form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations perception the process of perceiving 2n the faculty through which the external world is apprehended Syn|Hypo|Hyper sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency modality, sense modality, sensory system a particular sense sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation acutenessa sensitivity that is keen and highly developed hypersensitivityextreme sensitivity reactivity, responsivenessresponsive to stimulation exteroceptionsensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body interoceptionsensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body photosensitivity, radiosensitivitysensitivity to the action of radiant energy sight, vision, visual modality, visual sensethe ability to see; the visual faculty somatosenseany of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearingthe ability to hear; the auditory faculty gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste, tastethe faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell, smellthe faculty that enables us to distinguish scents faculty, mental faculty, module one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind 3n a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear Hyper stir emotional agitation and excitement 4n a state of widespread public excitement and interest the news caused a sensation Hyper excitation, excitement, fervor, fervour, inflammation the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up 5n someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field Syn|Hypo|Hyper ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard track star a star runner expert a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully |
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