1 [C] a feeling that you get when sth affects your body:
a tingling / burning / pleasant sensation * I had a sensation of falling, as if in a dream.
2 [U] the ability to feel through your sense of touch
SYNFEELING:
She seemed to have lost all sensation in her arms.
3 [C,usually sing.] a general feeling or impression that is difficult to explain; an experience or a memory:
He had the eerie sensation of being watched. * When I arrived, I had the sensation that she had been expecting me.
4 [C,usually sing,U] very great surprise, excitement, or interest among a lot of people; the person or the thing that causes this surprise:
News of his arrest caused a sensation. * The band became a sensation overnight.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for sensation is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sensation a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sensation is tagged as noun.
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