visual sensation
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4.3
- noun
- Specialized
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sensación visual
- It hardly needs to be underlined that this degree of engagement in conveying visual sensations will draw untold benefits from the reading of descriptive fiction.
Examples
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But we are increasingly aware that painters are not necessarily privileged spectators of their own works; and when they turn to words, they may in fact be rather less able than other categories of writers to articulate their thoughts about the notoriously opaque world of visual sensation.
Academic text (1990) -
When we open our eyes, we have a visual sensation that creates an intuition of space, an appearance of things, and the way in which they are situated.
Academic text (1990) -
Well, that big screen 3D TV of mine is necessary, so I can feel like "I'm really there" and I'm not deprived of any visual sensation, stimulation, or pleasure.
Blog text (16) -
But this memory is produced gradually by the metaphorical dimensions of the auditory and visual sensations that Frederic's solitude allows him to perceive.
Academic text (1990) -
When we open our eyes, we have a visual sensation that creates an intuition of space and the way things are situated.
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The quality of visual sensation involves perceiving colors, light, and depth when we look at an object.
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Experiencing a visual sensation can be as simple as noticing the bright blue sky on a sunny day.
Synonyms
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1.0
The ability to see or an impressive thing you see
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3.5
A feeling in your body from touch, pain, or heat
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4.6
Noticing things using your senses such as sight or hearing
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3.8
A picture in your mind of something you have seen
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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
The ability to use your eyes to notice things
The ability to see and understand what you look at
A picture in your mind you form when you see something
A simple feeling you get from touch, sight, hearing, taste or smell
A quick feeling from sight, sound, touch, taste or smell
How Intense
- Specialized
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4.3
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5.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents — 'visual' (related to sight) and 'sensation' (a sensory experience) — combine in a straightforward, compositional way to mean a sensory experience of seeing. The phrase is literal and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the component words can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Visual sensation puts together visual ('about seeing') and sensation ('a feeling'). It gives a simple picture: when light or images hit your eyes you get that 'feeling' of seeing, so the phrase means the experience of seeing something.