Sensation vs Experiencer - What's the difference?
sensation | experiencer |
A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.}}
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A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
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A person who experiences.
(linguistics) A thematic relation where something undergoes a situation or sensation lacking a semantic agent.
:The subjects of the intransitive verbs "fall" and "burn" are experiencer s.
As nouns the difference between sensation and experiencer
is that sensation is (widespread reaction of interest or excitement) while experiencer is a person who experiences.sensation
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations , surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}