Definition of sensation
- n. - 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.
- n. - A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or
disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or
material.
- n. - A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which
causes it.