resensation
resensation noun: the act or process of reexperiencing a sensation.
Noun
resensation (countable and uncountable, plural resensations)
- The act or process of reexperiencing a sensation.
- The delight of the infant in the first resensations of something as being familiar is more readily comparable to the adult's pleasure in returning to a beloved countryside or home, or in meeting a friend again that it is to the much more frequent feeling of familiarity with which we barely look at...1959, Ernest G. Schachtel, Metamorphosis: On the Conflict of Human Development and the Psychology of Creativity, page 149
- Their high level of form-perception and retentive memories are based on recognition, resensation and edetic imagery.1964, Richard Ralph Straub, A View of the Levels of Perceptual Development in Autistic Syndromes, page 37
Forms of resensation
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Origin of resensation
From re- + sensation.
Questions about resensation
- What does resensation mean?
- Resensation means the act or process of reexperiencing a sensation.
- What part of speech is resensation?
- Resensation is a noun.
- What is the plural of resensation?
- The plural of resensation is resensations.
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