Noun

• S: (n) sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense impression, sense datum (an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation) "a sensation of touch"
• S: (n) ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz (someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field)
• S: (n) sensation (a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest) "anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear"
• S: (n) sensation (a state of widespread public excitement and interest) "the news caused a sensation"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty (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"