English > sensation: 5 senses > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation. |
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| Example | "a sensation of touch" |
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| Synonyms | esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum |
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| Narrower | masking | The blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation |
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| smell, odor, odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception | The sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form |
| sound, auditory sensation | The subjective sensation of hearing something |
| synesthesia, synaesthesia | A sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated |
| taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception | The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus |
| threshold, limen | The smallest detectable sensation |
| vision, visual sensation | The perceptual experience of seeing |
| Broader | perception | The process of perceiving |
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| Spanish | aestesis, estesis, experiencia sensorial, impresión, impresión sensorial, sensación, sense datum |
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| Catalan | estesis, experiència sensorial, impressió sensorial, sensació |
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| Adjectives | sensational, sensory | relating to or concerned in sensation |
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| Verbs | sense | perceive by a physical sensation / sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles |
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