See Also: Sensation(medicine)
sensation(dictionary)
sensation(encyclopedia)
sensation(dictionary)
transferred sensation(medicine)
special sensation(medicine)
sensation time(medicine)
sensation disorders(medicine)
reflex sensation(medicine)
objective sensation(medicine)

discernment (iou) and sensation (sh)


discernment (iou)



discernment noun. Also decernment. L16.
[from DISCERN + -MENT.]
The act of distinguishing; a distinction. L16-M17.
The faculty of discerning, discrimination; keenness of intellectual perception; insight. L16.
The act of discerning; intellectual perception. L17.
B. Jowett The savage..has a quicker discernment of the track than the civilized man.

sensation (sh)




Mental process (such as seeing, hearing, or smelling) due to immediate bodily stimulation, usually as distinguished from perception.

When a stimulus impinges on a sense organ and the organism responds, it is said that the stimulus has been sensed. See also psychophysics, sense-data.