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单词 sensation
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
sen•sa•tion /sɛnˈseɪʃən/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. the ability to feel or perceive something through the senses:[uncountable]lost all sensation in his lower body as a result of the accident.
  2. a mental condition or physical feeling due to such awareness:[countable]sensations of heat and cold.
  3. a general feeling such as discomfort, anxiety, or doubt:[countable* often singular]a strong sensation of having been there before.
  4. widespread excitement or interest:[countable* usually singular]The divorce caused a sensation.
See -sens-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
sen•sa•tion  (sen sāshən),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. the operation or function of the senses;
    perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses.
  2. a mental condition or physical feeling resulting from stimulation of a sense organ or from internal bodily change, as cold or pain.
  3. Physiologythe faculty of perception of stimuli.
  4. a general feeling not directly attributable to any given stimulus, as discomfort, anxiety, or doubt.
  5. a mental feeling, esp. a state of excited feeling.
  6. a state of excited feeling or interest caused among a number of persons or throughout a community, as by some rumor or occurrence.
  7. a cause of such feeling or interest:The new Brazilian movie was the sensation of the film festival.
  • Medieval Latin sēnsātiōn- (stem of sēnsātiō), equivalent. to Late Latin sēnsāt(us) sensate + -iōn- -ion
  • 1605–15
sen•sation•less, adj. 
    • 2, 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See sense. 
    • 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged excitement, stimulation, animation; agitation, commotion, perturbation.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
sensation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/ n
  1. the power of perceiving through the senses
  2. a physical condition or experience resulting from the stimulation of one of the sense organs
  3. a state of widespread public excitement: his announcement caused a sensation
  4. anything that causes such a state: your speech was a sensation
Etymology: 17th Century: from Medieval Latin sensātiō, from Late Latin sensātus sensate
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