Word Meanings - PRESENSATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Previous sensation, notion, or idea. Dr. H. More.

Related words: (words related to PRESENSATION)

• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• 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,
• NOTIONATE
  Notional.
• SENSATIONALISM
  The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism. 2. The practice or methods of sensational
• SENSATIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism. 2. One who practices sensational writing or speaking.
• PREVIOUSLY
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• NOTIONIST
  One whose opinions are ungrounded notions. Bp. Hopkins.
• SENSATIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. 2. Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge. 3. Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic;
• NOTION
  1. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notæ. What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume
• NOTIONALITY
  A notional or groundless opinion. Glanvill.
• NOTIONAL
  1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions. 2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical. Discourses of speculative and notional things. Evelyn. 3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical;
• NOTIONALLY
  In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality. Two faculties . . . notionally or really distinct. Norris.
• PREVIOUS
  Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under
• PRESENSATION
  Previous sensation, notion, or idea. Dr. H. More.
• PRENOTION
  A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon.
• DIGNOTION
  Distinguishing mark; diagnostic. Sir T. Browne.
• AFTERSENSATION
  A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation