Sensation | Mean of sensation in English Dictionary

/sɛnˈseɪʃən/

• Noun
• a particular feeling or effect that your body experiences
1. I experienced a stinging/prickling/tingling sensation in my arm.
2. She felt a burning sensation in her throat.
3. visual/bodily sensations
4. a sensation of hunger
5. She craved new experiences and sensations.
• a particular feeling or experience that may not have a real cause
1. I had a sensation of falling. [=I felt as if I were falling]
2. She had the strange sensation that someone was watching her.
3. I couldn't quite shake the sensation that I'd been fooled.
• the ability to feel things through your physical senses
1. Her injury left her with no sensation in her legs.

• a lot of excitement and interest
1. The news created (quite) a sensation.
2. News of the corporate merger caused a sensation on the stock market.
• someone or something that causes a lot of excitement and interest
1. The rave reviews turned the book into a nationwide sensation overnight.
2. a music/pop sensation