sensation
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sensation/senˈseɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a physical feeling or perception resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body.
■ the capacity to have such feelings or perceptions.
- 2 an inexplicable awareness or impression.
- 3 a widespread reaction of interest and excitement.
■ a person or thing that arouses such interest and excitement.
'sensation' also found in these Oxford entries:
anaesthesia
- aura
- brain
- break
- burn
- butterfly
- catalepsy
- chafe
- Chinese burn
- cognition
- crawl
- creep
- crepitus
- deaden
- dizzy
- feel
- feeling
- fire
- flutter
- formication
- giddy
- heartburn
- hot
- hypaesthesia
- hyperaesthesia
- insensate
- insensitive
- itch
- kinaesthesia
- nerve
- numb
- out-of-body experience
- pain
- paraesthesia
- phantom limb
- phosphene
- pins and needles
- prick
- prickle
- prickly
- pulsate
- scald
- sear
- senseless
- sensory
- sentiment
- sharp
- sink
- somatosensory
