sense impression
- noun
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impresión sensorial
- Lawrence explained his belief that modern art must appeal to the physical experience of reality, in contrast to the remoteness fostered by abstraction, in an August 1928 letter in which he proclaimed, "If a picture is to hit deep into the senses, which is its business, it must hit down to the soul and up into the mind... and the meaning has to come through direct sense impression."
Examples
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After the long hike, she was overwhelmed by the sense impression of the fresh mountain air and beautiful scenery.
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In order to experience this second aspect, to really notice it, it is necessary to take in the sense impression and then keep it vitally alive.
Academic text (1992) -
"Here, in pure externality," he explained, "the audience encounters itself; its own reality is revealed in the fragmented sequence of splendid sense impressions."
Academic text (2003) -
The way in which we come to see this figure—that it is a cube and that its front is lower or higher—forms a kind of phenomenology of sense impression.
Academic text (1999) -
The artist aimed to evoke strong emotions by capturing the vibrant sense impression of the sunset on canvas.
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Through his vivid storytelling, he created a lasting sense impression of the bustling city life for his readers.
Synonyms
137
3.5
A feeling in your body from touch, pain, or heat
1
9.9
A simple immediate experience from seeing, hearing, or touching before the mind interprets it
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7.2
An experience you get through your senses, like seeing or feeling something
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9.8
A mental image or impression you get from your senses
A simple feeling you get from touch, sight, hearing, taste or smell
A simple feeling from one of your senses, for example touch or hearing
How Immediate
137
3.5
- Specialized
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9.9
- Specialized
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9.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an elementary awareness resulting from stimulation of a sense organ' is directly derivable from combining 'sense' (sensory faculty) and 'impression' (an immediate feeling). This noun–noun compositional pattern is transparent and cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Sense impression may come from the simple image of a mark left by what we feel: sense (what we see, hear, or touch) makes an impression on the mind like a stamp, leaving a quick image or mark. So the phrase means the fast 'feeling' or awareness you get from your senses.