aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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consensus | (noun) agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole | - |
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desensitisation | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitization |
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desensitization | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitisation |
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dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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(noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |
hypersensitivity | (noun) extreme sensitivity | - |
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(noun) pathological sensitivity | - |
insensibility | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, unfeelingness |
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(noun) a lack of sensibility | - |
insensitiveness | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitivity |
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insensitivity | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitiveness |
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microsensor | (noun) A submicrometer- to millimeter-size device that converts a nonelectrical physical or chemical quantity, such as pressure, acceleration, temperature, or gas concentration, into an electrical signal; it is generally able to offer better sensitivity, accuracy, dynamic range, and reliability, as well as lower power consumption, compared to larger counterparts. | - |
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nonsense | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery |
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality |
nonsensicality | (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense |
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oversensitiveness | (noun) sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset | - |
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photosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: radiosensitivity |
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radiosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: photosensitivity |
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sens | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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sensation | (noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation | Synonyms: aesthesis, esthesis, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
(noun) a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest | - |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
(noun) a state of widespread public excitement and interest | - |
sensationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricism, empiricist philosophy |
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(noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensualism |
(noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: luridness |
(noun) subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes | - |
sensationalist | (noun) someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention | Synonyms: ballyhoo artist |
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sense | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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(noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit |
(noun) a general conscious awareness | - |
(noun) a natural appreciation or ability | - |
(noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: signified |
senselessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, vacuity |
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sensibility | (noun) mental responsiveness and awareness | Synonyms: aesthesia, esthesia |
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(noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensitiveness, sensitivity |
(noun) refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions | - |
sensibleness | (noun) the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment | - |
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sensing | (noun) becoming aware of something via the senses | Synonyms: perception |
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(noun) the perception that something has occurred or some state exists | Synonyms: detection |
sensitisation | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitising, sensitization, sensitizing |
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(noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitization |
(noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitization |
sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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sensitising | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
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sensitive | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
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sensitiveness | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitivity |
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(noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitivity |
(noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitivity |
(noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitivity |
sensitivity | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
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(noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
(noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitiveness |
(noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
(noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: predisposition |
sensitization | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitizing |
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(noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
(noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
sensitizer | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitiser |
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sensitizing | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization |
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sensitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the light sensitivity of film over a range of exposures | - |
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sensor | (noun) any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner | Synonyms: detector, sensing element |
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sensorium | (noun) the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world | - |
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sensualism | (noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensationalism |
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(noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensuality, sensualness |
sensualist | (noun) a person who enjoys sensuality | - |
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sensuality | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensualness |
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sensualness | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensuality |
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sensuousness | (noun) a sensuous feeling | - |
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somatosense | (noun) any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain | - |
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