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Word entry · 9 letters

sensation

Best crossword clue

"Noticeable stir"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /sɛnˈseɪʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aeinnosstStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

Word origin

From Old French, from Medieval Latin sensatio, from Latin sensus.

Used in a sentence

  • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
  • Coordinate term: perception
  • In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; […] no sensation; […]

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