_1. Sensation in general_
#375. Physical Sensibility.—N. sensibility; sensitiveness &c. adj.;
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physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity,
aesthetics;
moral sensibility &c. 822.
sensation, impression; consciousness &c. (knowledge) 490.
external senses.
V. be sensible of &c. adj.; feel, perceive.
render sensible &c. adj.; sharpen, cultivate, tutor.
cause sensation, impress; excite an impression, produce an
impression.
Adj. sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive,
sentient;
conscious &c. (aware) 490.
acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.
Adv. to the quick.
Phr. "the touch'd needle trembles to the pole" [Pope].
#376. Physical Insensibility.—N. insensibility, physical
insensibility; obtuseness &c. adj.; palsy, paralysis,
paraesthesia[Med], anaesthesia; sleep &c. 823; hemiplegia[obs3], motor
paralysis; vegetable state; coma. anaesthetic agent, opium, ether,
chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas,
protoxide of nitrogen[ISA:chemsubcfs]; refrigeration. V. be insensible
&c. adj.; have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide. render insensible
&c. adj.; anaesthetize[obs3], blunt, pall, obtund[obs3], benumb,
paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform &c. n.; stupefy, stun.
Adj. insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient[obs3], callous,
thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof,
obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.
#377. Physical Pleasure.—N. pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual
pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification,
hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness &c. adj.; dissipation, round of
pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow
&c. (support) 215; luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of
downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe &c. (intemperance)