Index of English words, starting with "se"

(1) - Sensate (a.) Alt. of Sensated
(2) - Sensate (v. t.) To feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.

(1) - Sensation (n.) A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
(2) - Sensation (n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
(3) - Sensation (n.) 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.

(1) - Sensational (a.) Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.
(2) - Sensational (a.) Of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.
(3) - Sensational (a.) Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

(1) - Sensationalism (n.) The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.
(2) - Sensationalism (n.) 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.