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Sensation vs Thrill - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between sensation and thrill

is that sensation is a physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed while thrill is a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.

As a verb thrill is

to suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.

sensation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 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. […]”}}
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    • Hyponyms

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    Related terms

    * sensational * sense * sensible * sensitive * sensory * sensual

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    thrill

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
  • * 1937 , Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney:
    • One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through
  • * M. Arnold
    • vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the reader with sudden delight
  • * Spenser
    • The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled , / That sudden cold did run through every vein.
  • (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
  • (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
  • * Spenser
    • He pierced through his chafed chest / With thrilling point of deadly iron brand.
  • (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
  • * Heywood
    • I'll thrill my javelin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill .}}
  • A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
  • (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
  • A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

    • Derived terms

    * cheap thrill * thrill kill / thrill killing * thrill killer * thrilly