Sensation

An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.

A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.

A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.

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"

an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch"

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