sensation

(n) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
- a sensation of touch
aesthesis, esthesis, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression,
(n) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field adept, hotshot, maven, mavin, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard, star, ace, genius, champion,
(n) a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
- anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear
(n) a state of widespread public excitement and interest
- the news caused a sensation
(n) 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
sensory faculty, sentiency, sentience, sense,

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

sensational sensationalism sensationalist sensationalistic sensationally