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Definition: Sensation |
SensationNoun1. An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch". 2. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. 3. A general feeling of excitement; "the announcement caused a sensation". 4. The faculty through which the external world is apprehended. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sensation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Sensation \Sen*sa"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression sensation. See Sensate.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | The effect in consciousness of stimulation of an afferent nerve. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | The element of the mental content of a sense impression which cannot be analysed further. Source: European Union. (references) |
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See also tabloid.
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Synonyms: SensationSynonyms: ace (n), adept (n), genius (n), hotshot (n), maven (n), sense (n), sense datum (n), sense experience (n), sense impression (n), sensory faculty (n), sentience (n), sentiency (n), star (n), virtuoso (n), whiz (n), whizz (n), wiz (n), wizard (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Feeling | Noun: feeling; suffering; Verb: endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy; (love); impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense. |
Physical Sensibility | Sensation, impression; consciousness. (knowledge). |
Cause sensation, impress; excite an impression, produce an impression. | |
The Drama | Play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame; melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy. |
Wonder | Noun: wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness; Adjective: admiration, awe; stupor, stupefaction; stound, fascination; sensation; surprise; (inexpectation) O. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | All I ask is that you keep up with me. If you can't, then that strange sensation you'll be feeling in the seat of your pants will be my boot in your ass! (Crimson Tide; writing credit: Michael Schiffer. filmmaker Quentin Tarantino revised portions of the dialogue) Oh, what a good sensation! (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) I'm walking on air you know this is a sensation which is forget it. When I became a dentist, I thought I was happy, but this (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy) The sensation you feel is the Quickening. (Highlander; writing credit: Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson.) I have always imagined that the blade, coming down, causes no more than a slight tickling sensation on the back of the neck. (Charade; writing credit: Peter Stone; Marc Behm) | |
Lyrics | I gotta new sensation (New Sensation; performing artist: INXS) Just to bring back home, that old sweet sensation (Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again; performing artist: BARRY MANILOW) Do the dance sensation that is sweepin' the nation at the hop ("At the Hop"; performing artist: Danny & The Juniors) It's just the sensation (Music; performing artist: Erick Sermon) Dancing around you feel the sweet sensation (Into The Groove; performing artist: Madonna) | |
Clever | You are getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Last Sensation (1974) Top Sensation (1969) Sensation Generation (1969) Skaf en sensation (1934) Sensation Hunters (1933) | |
Song Titles | New Sensation (performing artist: INXS) | |
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 | This patient sustained progressive destruction, degeneration, and disorganization of the knee joint resulting from a loss of sensation caused by long standing tabes dorsalis. This condition was brought on during tertiary syphilis. Credit: CDC. |  | [The sensation of heat]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Wonder man from the eigth [sic] demension [sic] the sensation of today!--A small cave at the mouth of a river is the source of the unheard of eighth demension [sic] "strength ...". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Kodak creates a sensation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sapho New York's raging sensation. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A.H. Woods presents Valeska Suratt in the swift, smart & saucy play, The girl with the whooping cough the latest Paris sensation : by Stanislaus Stange. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Madam Girard Gyer [as] Bartholdi's statue presented by the republic of France to America : a new sensation, original by this lady : Liberty represented by the original Mme. Girard Gyer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The celebrated French aerielists [sic] & acrobats the latest European sensation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Long Bro's, Pawnee Bill & May Lillie in the great western military romantic play, Madeline of Fort Re[no] the sensation of the 19th century. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The American psychedelic light and sound show sensation pop music projection : A20.00 June 28, July 3, Theater Stalden. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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E. M. Cioran | Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. |
Lord Byron | The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | There will be enough of them, in all probability, to supply every sort of sensation that declining life can need. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | But it was no common lamplight into which I now stepped, with a strange, new, dreamy sensation of some subtle witchery that had come over the place. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The first sensation being over, the judge made few objections. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Dublin was a new and complex sensation. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Abnormal sensation and perception. (references) | |
A sensation of dizziness or vertigo (spinning). (references) | ||
Many people with spinal cord tumors suffer a loss of sensation. (references) | ||
Business | The most recent addition to the restaurant market, creating a sensation is Starbucks Coffee. (references) | |
Travel | Mexico | Upon arrival in Mexico City, the sensation of increased respiration, rapid heart rate, and mild dizziness are normal adaptive processes. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection. |
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| "Sensation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sensation" is used about 1,415 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 1,415 | 5,681 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sensation": a painful sensation of cold ♦ auditory sensation ♦ create a sensation ♦ cutaneous sensation ♦ Globus Sensation ♦ Globus sensation in the neck ♦ gustatory sensation ♦ haptic sensation ♦ make a sensation ♦ olfactory sensation ♦ painful sensation ♦ pressure sensation ♦ produce a sensation ♦ Sensation Disorders ♦ sensation level ♦ sensation magazine ♦ sensation of thirst ♦ skin sensation ♦ somatic sensation ♦ subjective sensation ♦ tactile sensation ♦ tactual sensation ♦ taste sensation ♦ touch sensation ♦ visual sensation. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sensation": sensation-feeling, sensation-hungry, sensation-loving, sensation-mongers, sensation-seekers, sensation-seeking. | |
Ending with "sensation": fantasy-sensation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sensation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndjesi (feeling, sense, sexiness), ndjenjë (emotion, feeling, passion, sense, sentiment, vibes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نبأ مثير (scoop), حس (feel, feeling), ترك أثرا عميقا, ضجة (ado, botcher, bother, clutter, din, hullabaloo, hustle, noise, pother, racket, roar, row, rumor, rumour, rumpus, shindy, sound, stir, storm, titbit, tumult), إهتياج (access, ado, agitation, bother, bustling, commotion, delirium, dither, ebullience, effervescence, excitation, exciting, ferment, fermentation, flurry, fuss, great rage, in a state, ramp, rampage, stir, willies), إحساس (emotion, feel, feeling, sense, sensibility), شعور قوي, شعور (affect, aura, cheer, consciousness, feel, feeling, hunch, pulse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | усещане (feel, feeling, perception, prehension, sense, sensibility), сензация (boom, hit, shine, splash, stir), чувство (affect, emotion, feel, feeling, sense, sentiment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 轟動 (stir), 感觉 (Feeling, feelings, sense, sensed, Sensibilities, sensibility, sensing, sensorial), 感情 (affection, emotion, feeling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | senzace (splash), èit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sensation, opsigt, følelse (emotion, feel, feeling, sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sensatie, klapstuk (beef). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sento (feel, feeling), sensacio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | kensla (feel, feeling, sense, sentiment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حس (Quale, Sense), تاثیر (Efficacy, Hank, Influence, Influx), احساس (Gusto, Impression, Sense, Sentiment), شور (Briny, Craze, Emotion, Excitement, Rapture, Rut, Saline, Salty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aistimus (perception). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sensation (sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | gefoel (feel, feeling, sense), fielen (feel, feeling, sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sensation (scorcher, thrill), Empfindung (emotion, feeling, impression, percept, sentience, sentiment), aufsehen (ado, astonishment, din, furor, furore, look up, noise, surprise, to look up, wonder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αίσθηση (consciousness, percept, sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תחוש" (feel, feeling, hunch, perception, sense), חוי" (deep impression, experience), ס סצי" (splash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szenzáció (beat, out-and-outer, stir), érzés (abashment, feeling, idea, sense, sentience, sentiment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sensasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | ceint (cent, feel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sensazione (feeling, sense, splash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 感触 (feeling, sense of touch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きもち (feeling, mood), きみ (companion, daimyo, duke, egg yolk, feeling, lord, prince, public, subordinate, you), つむじかぜ (whirlwind), せ"ぷう (whirlwind), か"しょく (a cold color, a compound color, do-nothing job, eating between meals, feeling, government service, leisurely post, sense of touch, sinecure, snacking, the rotting of lumber stored with poor air circulation), か"かく (audience, interval, sense, space, SPC, spectators, visitors), か" (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), ""ち (feeling, mood), センセーション . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 감각 (Feeling, feelings, sensorial, sensory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ennaghtyn (atmosphere, experience, feel, feeling, gratitude, noble sentiments, perceive, realization, sense, sensibility, sympathy), ard-haghyrt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | sentimentu (feel, feeling, sense), sentimento (feel, feeling, sense), heful (feel, feeling, sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ensationsay uczucie (feel, feeling, sense). (various references) sensação (impression, sense, thrill). (various references) senzaţie (boom, excitement, feeling, page-one, perception, splash, stir), sentiment (conception, emotion, feeling, flush, pathos, sense, sentiment, view), vâlvã (agitation, boom, fame, page-one, scandal, surprise), emoţie (agitation, emotion, excitement, feeling, flush, flutter, heart-beat, thrill, tremor, turn). (various references) сенсация (brouhaha, rattler), ощущение (feeling, sense). (various references) senzacija (bombshell, furor, furore, upset), osećaj (feel, feeling, sense, sentience). (various references) sentimiento (affect, feel, feeling, regret, sense, sentiment, sympathy), sensación (bombshell, feel, feeling, hit, sense, stir, thrill). (various references) uppståndelse (commotion, excitement, flurry, fuss, resurrection, rising, stink, stir, to-do), sinnesförnimmelse, sensation, förnimmelse (perception). (various references) ความตื่นเต้น, ความรู้สึกต่อการสัมผัส. (various references) sansasyon (furor, furore, rouser, splash), merak (anxiety, avocation, bug, care, concern, crotchet, curiosity, disquiet, disquietude, fad, fancy, hobby, interest, whim, wonderment, worry), hissetme (feel, feeling, perceiving, sense, understanding), his (chord, consciousness, emotion, feel, feeling, sense, sentiment), heyecan verici şey (thrill), heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), duyum, duyu (sense), duygu (chord, emotion, feel, feeling, sense, sentiment), algılama (perception, perceptional), algı (apprehension, feeling, perception, sense). (various references) сенсація (startler), сприйняття (catalepsy, embranchment), відчуття (feel, feeling, perception). (various references) sự l m quần chúng xúc động mạnh, tin giật gân, cảm giác sự xúc động mạnh. (various references) teimlad (emotion, feel, feeling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sensus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | sensatus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sensation": sensational, sensationalise, sensationalised, sensationalises, sensationalising, sensationalism, sensationalisms, sensationalist, sensationalistic, sensationalists, sensationalize, sensationalized, sensationalizes, sensationalizing, sensationally, sensations. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sensation": nonsensational, unsensational. (additional references) | |
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"Sensation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: censation, pensation, Sansavino, senation, sensating, senzation, sessation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sensation" (pronounced sensā"shun) |
| 6 | -n s ā" sh u n | compensation, condensation, dispensation. |
| 5 | -s ā" sh u n | annexation, cessation, conversation, fixation, indexation, relaxation, subluxation, taxation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, aspiration, assassination, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, confabulation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, continuation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrification, elevation, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, innovation, inoculation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, installation, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, titillation, toleration, transformation, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: astonies, enations, insanest, onanists, sonatine, stanines, tensions. | |
-2 letters: anoints, atonies, enation, entasis, inanest, intones, nasions, nasties, nations, nosiest, onanist, sennits, sestina, siennas, sonants, sonnets, sonnies, stanine, tansies, tension, tisanes. | |
-3 letters: anenst, anions, anises, anoint, assent, atones, enosis, eonian, eosins, essoin, inanes, innate, insane, insets, intone, nasion, nation, nitons, noesis, noises, nonets, onsets, ossein. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: sanbenitos, sensations. | |
+2 letters: abstentions, assentation, constancies, isoantigens, nonascetics, sensational. | |
+3 letters: angiotensins, assentations, astonishment, contrariness, designations, destinations, dispensation, expansionist, ignorantness, inchoateness, infestations, inseminators, langoustines, mensurations, nationalises, nitrogenases, nitrosamines, nonassertive, nonessential, nonresistant, ostentations, personations, rationalness, resignations, sanctimonies, sinfoniettas, supernations, sustentation, transections. | |
+4 letters: admonishments, amniocenteses, amniocentesis, anticonsumers, antiestrogens, antinepotisms, antinovelists, antirecession, astonishments, compensations, condensations, consecrations, conservations, consultancies, containerises, containerless, contestations, conversations, counterstains, desalinations, dispensations, dissemination, encrustations, enterokinases, expansionists, fenestrations, inconstancies, inseminations, instantaneous, intravenouses, introgressant, inviolateness, menstruations, momentariness, mountainsides, necessitation, nonassociated, nonessentials, nonresistance, nonresistants, nonspecialist, nonsystematic, normativeness, obstinateness, presentations, segmentations, sensationally, sensitisation, sensitization, somnifacients, spontaneities, sternutations, strontianites, sustentations, tenaciousness, transfections, transgression, unsensational, voluntariness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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