sensation

sensation is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
2. noun. A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
3. noun. A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
4. noun. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

   "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

   Synonyms: sense, sentience, sentiency

5. noun. an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

   "a sensation of touch"

   Synonyms: aesthesis, esthesis

6. noun. a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest

   "anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear"

7. noun. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

   Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz

8. noun. a state of widespread public excitement and interest

   "the news caused a sensation"

Synonyms

sense, sentience, sentiency, aesthesis, esthesis, ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sensation:

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Common word forms

sensations, sensational, sensationless

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