A physical feeling that comes from your senses, like touch, taste, or pain. It can also mean a big excitement or stir in public, like when something becomes very popular very quickly.
From Latin 'sensus' meaning 'feeling, perception', through French 'sensation'. The word originally focused on physical feeling, then expanded to emotional and social 'feelings'.
When a video becomes 'a sensation', we’re borrowing a body word for a social event—it’s like saying the whole public can 'feel' it. That same root shows up in 'sense', 'sensitive', and 'sentiment', all about different kinds of feeling.
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