sensation

Noun

• 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
    

• a state of widespread public excitement and interest
  • the news caused a sensation
    

• a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
  • anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear
    

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation
  • a sensation of touch
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sense , sentience , sentiency , sensory faculty , esthesis , aesthesis , sense experience , sense impression , sense datum