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

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1. • Excitement
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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. Alice Winocour:

   I had suffered from PTSD Alice Winocour by giving birth to my daughter and almost died from pre-eclampsia with her, and that is what the film is about... sensation, and the film is almost like a sensory experience and I wanted it to be very physical.

2. Charles Baudelaire:

   We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

3. Maya Angelou:

   A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

4. John Guy:

   It’s a stunning piece of research, and these discoveries will be a literary and historical sensation, they mark the most important new find on Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, for 100 years.

5. Shah Asad Rizvi:

   The sensation of movement guides and heals, for there is no other medicine like a dance that magnifies what you feel

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