Antonyms for sensation
sɛnˈseɪ ʃənsen·sa·tion

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1. sensation

   Sensation is the mind's consciousness due to a bodily affection, as of heat or cold; perception is the cognition of some external object which is the cause or occasion of the sensation; the sensation of heat may be connected with the perception of a fire. While sensations are connected with the body, emotions, as joy, grief, etc., are wholly of the mind. "As the most of them [the sensations] are positively agreeable or the opposite, they are nearly akin to those emotions, as hope or terror, or those passions, as anger and envy, which are acknowledged by all to belong exclusively to the spirit, and to involve no relation whatever to matter or the bodily organism. Such feelings are not infrequently styled sensations, though improperly." Porter Human Intellect § 112, p. 128. [Chas. Scribner's Sons '90.] Feeling is a general term popularly denoting what is felt, whether through the body or by the mind alone, and includes both sensation and emotion. A sense is an organ or faculty of sensation or of perception.

   Synonyms:
   emotion, feeling, perception, sense

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. sensation

   Antonyms:
   apathy, insensibility, nonperception, unsurprise

   Synonyms:
   affection, apprehension, sentiment, feeling, perception, surprise, impression

Matched Categories

1. • Excitement
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   • Stir

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.3 / 4 votes

1. sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datumnoun

   an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

   "a sensation of touch"

   Synonyms:
   virtuoso, star, sentience, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, esthesis, sentiency, sense impression, maven, ace, genius, sense datum, hotshot, wiz, adept, wizard, sense experience, sensory faculty, sense, whizz

2. ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiznoun

   someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

   Synonyms:
   esthesis, wiz, whiz, brain, one, sense, asterisk, maven, protagonist, ace, paladin, angiotensin-converting enzyme, unity, whizz, friend, headliner, thaumaturgist, principal, sensory faculty, necromancer, thaumaturge, booster, lead, sense experience, hotshot, brilliance, hero, star topology, wizardry, mavin, brainiac, single, genius, star, title-holder, angiotensin converting enzyme, sense datum, flair, virtuoso, fighter, wizard, magician, supporter, sorcerer, aesthesis, sense impression, adept, sentience, superstar, champ, mastermind, admirer, champion, sentiency

3. sensationnoun

   a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest

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

   Synonyms:
   virtuoso, star, sentience, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, esthesis, sentiency, sense impression, maven, ace, genius, sense datum, hotshot, wiz, adept, wizard, sense experience, sensory faculty, sense, whizz

4. sensationnoun

   a state of widespread public excitement and interest

   "the news caused a sensation"

   Synonyms:
   virtuoso, star, sentience, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, mavin, esthesis, sentiency, sense impression, maven, ace, genius, sense datum, hotshot, wiz, adept, wizard, sense experience, sensory faculty, sense, whizz

5. sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory facultynoun

   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:
   adept, sentience, hotshot, virtuoso, good sense, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, sentiency, mother wit, esthesis, awareness, horse sense, ace, genius, mavin, common sense, sense datum, maven, wiz, signified, sense impression, wizard, star, sense experience, sensory faculty, gumption, sense, whizz

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sensationnoun

   Synonyms:
   consciousness, feeling, perception, excitement

   Associated words:
   æsthesiology, sensorium, sentient, sensific, sensory, sentiency, insentient, sensifacient, sensiferous, sensificatory, sensitive, æsthesiometer, æsthesiogen, catalepsy, anæsthesia

How to use sensation in a sentence?

1. A. M. Rosenthal:

   If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

2. Joel Salinas:

   I felt this subtle sensation in my chest and this rising kind of feeling in the shoulders. I recommended a CT scan just to be sure and it later showed she had a blood clot in her lungs, i wouldn’t have been able to pick up on that if it wasn’t for the mirror-touch.

3. Kathleen Cullen:

   There's a really profound fundamental thing that happens in the brain of people like dancers or skaters over lots and lots of practice. And that's basically a change in the way the brain is processing information, when you spin around, you're activating the semicircular canals, rotation sensors. They're filled with fluid and they're sensing your rotation. But when you stop, the fluid has inertia and it tends to continue to move. They actually get a false sensation of movement.

4. Seymour Diamond:

   You may have fever, you may have persistent coughing and all of those things can predict a headache, however, the headache of Covid-19 is described as a really tight, sort of squeezing sensation, and typically worsens with coughing and fever.

5. Ying Li:

   To achieve a better treatment effect of acupuncture, deqi sensation is important, the care providers should try their best to achieve deqi sensation at each acupuncture point.

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