Sensation vs. Tickle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sensation and Tickle
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Definitions
Sensation
A perception associated with stimulation of a sense organ or with a specific body condition
The sensation of heat.
A visual sensation.
Tickle
To touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements.
Sensation
The faculty to feel or perceive; physical sensibility
The patient has very little sensation left in the right leg.
Tickle
To tease or excite pleasurably; titillate
Suspense that tickles the reader's curiosity.
Sensation
An indefinite generalized body feeling
A sensation of lightness.
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Tickle
To fill with mirth or pleasure; delight.
Sensation
A state of heightened interest or emotion
"The anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhat between bliss and fear" (James Weldon Johnson).
Tickle
To feel or cause a tingling sensation.
Sensation
A state of intense public interest and excitement
"The purser made a sensation as sailors like to do, by predicting a storm" (Evelyn Waugh).
Tickle
The act of tickling.
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Sensation
A cause of such interest and excitement
The band's new singer is a sensation.
Tickle
A tickling sensation.
Sensation
A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
Tickle
The act of tickling.
Sensation
A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
Tickle
An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
I have a persistent tickle in my throat.
Sensation
A small serving of gin or sherry.
Tickle
A light tap of the ball.
Sensation
An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.
Perception is only a special kind of knowledge, and sensation a special kind of feeling. . . . Knowledge and feeling, perception and sensation, though always coexistent, are always in the inverse ratio of each other.
Tickle
(Newfoundland) A narrow strait.
Sensation
A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
Tickle
(transitive) To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
He tickled Nancy's tummy, and she started to giggle.
Sensation
A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
The sensation caused by the appearance of that work is still remembered by many.
Tickle
(transitive) To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal.
A stranger tickled Nancy's tummy, causing her to scream in fear.
Sensation
An unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation;
A sensation of touch
Tickle
To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
My nose tickles, and I'm going to sneeze!
Sensation
Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Tickle
(transitive) To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
Sensation
A general feeling of excitement and heightened interest;
Anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear
Tickle
(transitive) To cause delight or amusement in.
He was tickled to receive such a wonderful gift.
Sensation
A state of widespread public excitement and interest;
The news caused a sensation
Tickle
(intransitive) To feel titillation.
Sensation
The faculty through which the external world is apprehended;
In the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
Tickle
(transitive) To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.
Tickle
(archaic) To be excited or heartened.
Tickle
(obsolete) Changeable, capricious; insecure.
Tickle
To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
Tickle
To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Such a natureTickled with good success, disdains the shadowWhich he treads on at noon.
Tickle
To feel titillation.
He with secret joy thereforeDid tickle inwardly in every vein.
Tickle
To excite the sensation of titillation.
Tickle
Ticklish; easily tickled.
Tickle
Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
The world is now full tickle, sikerly.
So tickle is the state of earthy things.
Tickle
Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off.
Tickle
A cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking
Tickle
The act of tickling
Tickle
Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
Tickle
Feel sudden intense sensation or emotion;
He was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine
Tickle
Touch or stroke lightly;
The grass tickled her calves
