noun
definition
A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
definition
A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
Examples of sensations in a Sentence
The strange sensations within him remained.
His body was solid and strong, the sensations of his skin against hers and his scents intoxicating her.
She was lost for a moment in the sensations of his warm hand clasping hers.
She was trying hard to ignore the sensations in her body.
Intrigued by the sensations, she found herself unwilling to look away from him this time.
The sensations made her want to cry.
She closed her eyes, savoring the sensations, his scent and heated touch imprinted upon her mind.
His scent and heat, the warmth of his magic, the heady sensations of being so close to him … She concentrated on placing her feet and not on his body.
The sensations made him more restless.
Jessi fought the sensations, not wanting to lose control, especially to him.
When he lifted his head, her thoughts were too addled for her to focus on anything more than the sensations of the body against hers.
Yully closed her eyes, entranced by the sensations.
He relished the sensations of her hot mouth and soft skin, the scent of her arousal and the way her body molded against his.
She shivered at the sensations, desire blooming hot and fast within her.
The men around her were roused by the sensations.
Deidre struggled against the sensations.
Deidre ran her hands over the clothing in the wardrobe, gasping at the sensations.
She'd almost crossed the threshold where she was his; he felt her body start to arch under the sensations.
Suddenly, the sensations stopped.
Sense alone will never create orderly experience, as empiricism supposed; but a group of sensations reacted on by thought does so; it becomes, it is, a percept.
Incomprehensibly, we are dependent upon sensation; and incomprehensibly, we place our sensations in time and space.
She ate, her attention soon captured by the sensations of the airy omelet and melted cheese in her mouth.
Nothing made sense to her numbed mind, aside from the fragrant ocean, the fine sand that slid through her fingers like silk, and the warm-cool sensations caused by a combination of afternoon sun and sea breeze.
The sensations humbled him, and he thought again of Mansr's words, that he needed to be more than an exiled war planner.
Rhyn squinted towards the sound of his brother's voice, struggling to balance the sensations within him.
The colors and sensations of the immortal world were richer on the senses, but the mortal world seemed raw, untamed.
He let the sensations outside of his mind distract him while he checked his watch a few times.
The pinch came, followed by the strange sensations of energy flying within her.
Exploring the sensations of her body tentatively, she thought she heard the doorbell in the distance.
Tremors of the muscles more or less violent accompany the cold sensations, beginning with the muscles of the lower jaw (chattering of the teeth), and extending to the extremities and trunk.
Sensations, he argued, thus being representable by numbers, psychology may become an "exact" science, susceptible of mathematical treatment.
By reducing the human mind to a series of unrelated atomic sensations, this teaching destroyed the possibility of knowledge, and further, by representing man as a "being who is simply the result of natural forces," it made conduct, or any theory of conduct, unmeaning; for life in any human, intelligible sense implies a personal self which (1) knows what to do, (2) has power to do it.
Debussy has this in common with Strauss, that he too regards harmonies as pure physical sensations; but he differs from Strauss firstly in systematically refusing to regard them as anything else, and secondly in his extreme sensibility to harshness.
We have seen (in the articles on Harmony and Music) how harmonic music originated in just this habit of regarding combinations of sound as mere sensations, and how for centuries the habit opposed itself to the intellectual principles of contrapuntal harmony.
Much motor weakness and cutaneous sensations similar to those above described soon follow.
As cause of our sensations and ground of our belief in externality, he substituted for an unintelligible material substance an equally unintelligible operation of divine power.
Equally impossible was it thenceforth to assert the mediate or immediate certainty of material substance as the cause either of events in nature or of sensations in ourselves.
If the sensations corresponding to these neighbouring elements are thus aroused, we have no such perception as a pure tone, and what we regard as a pure tone is the mean of a group of sensations.
Smith, though recognizing the unpleasantness of beats, could not accept Sauveur's theory, and, indeed, it received no acceptance till it was rediscovered by Helmholtz, to whose investigations, recorded in his Sensations of Tone, we owe its satisfactory establishment.
For a full discussion see his Sensations of Tone, ch.
We may illustrate the first method by taking a case discussed by Helmholtz (Sensations of Tone, app. xvi.) where the two sources are reeds or pipes blown from the same wind-chest.
But inasmuch as the successive orders are proportional to A X 2 A 3, or µµ 2 µ 3, and X and µ are small, they are of rapidly decreasing importance, and it is not certain that any beyond those in equation (35) correspond to our actual sensations.
Aethers were invented for the planets to swim in, to constitute electric atmospheres and magnetic effluvia, to convey sensations from one part of our bodies to another, and so on, till all space had been filled three or four times over with aethers.
Since (following Protagoras) knowledge is solely of momentary sensations, it is useless to try, as Socrates recommended, to make calculations as to future pleasures, and to balance present enjoyment with disagreeable consequences.
Knowledge resides not in sense but in reason, which, on the suggestion of sensations of changing individuals, apprehends, or (to be precise) is reminded of, real universal forms, and, by first ascending from less to more general until it arrives at the form of good and then descending from this unconditional principle to the less general, becomes science and philosophy, using as its method the dialectic which gives and receives questions and answers between man and man.
Berkeley is compelled to see that an immediate perception is not a thing, and that what we consider permanent or substantial is not a sensation but a group of qualities, which in ultimate analysis means sensations either immediately felt or such as our experience has taught us would be felt in conjunction with these.
Our belief in the reality of a thing may therefore be said to mean assurance that this association in our minds between actual and possible sensations is somehow guaranteed.
Further, Berkeley's own theory would never permit him to speak of possible sensations, meaning by that the ideas of sensations called up to our minds by present experience.
Our belief in the permanence of something which corresponds to the association in our minds of actual and possible sensations means belief in the orderliness of nature; and that is merely assurance that the universe is pervaded and regulated by mind.
He therefore concluded that all we know from the data of psychological idealism is impressions or sensations, ideas, and associations of ideas, making us believe without proof in substances and causes, together with " a certain unknown, inexplicable something as the cause of our preceptions."