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Sensational

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

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Impressive 84% connected

Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect th…

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Impressive 84% connected

Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect th…

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Lurid 84% connected

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.

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Lurid 84% connected

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.

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Screaming 84% connected

of Scream

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Screaming 84% connected

of Scream

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Shocking 84% connected

of Shock

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Shocking 84% connected

of Shock

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Yellow 84% connected

Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is be…

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Yellow 84% connected

Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is be…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Pertains to 1

Aesthesis 66% connected

Sensuous perception.

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Sensationalism 66% connected

The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; s…

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Sensationalism 66% connected

The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; s…

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Arresting 92% connected

of Arrest

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Sensory 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Stunning 92% connected

of Stun

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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