Describing Wordsfor Sensation

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Here are some adjectives for sensation: odd numbing, queer momentary, oppressed, heavy, bought--personal, latest overnight, all-too-familiar, sickening, entirely new and unwelcome, unfamiliar but welcome, slightly claustrophobic, unsettled and unsettling, exact tactile, slight stinging, unexpected and unbearably unpleasant, queer, weak, slightest agreeable, slight panicky, definite and disturbing, telltale dazed, slightly heady, uneasy, pleasurable, strangely faint, peculiar, double, mild numbing, eerie and indescribable, indescribably clammy, slightest pleasurable, peripheral voluptuous, rapid and divine, vague, annoying, new, exhilarating. You can get the definitions of these sensation adjectives by clicking on them. You might also like some words related to sensation (and find more here).

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Words to Describe sensation

Below is a list of describing words for sensation. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe sensation:

odd numbing queer momentary oppressed, heavy bought--personal latest overnight all-too-familiar, sickening entirely new and unwelcome unfamiliar but welcome slightly claustrophobic unsettled and unsettling exact tactile slight stinging unexpected and unbearably unpleasant queer, weak slightest agreeable slight panicky definite and disturbing telltale dazed slightly heady uneasy, pleasurable strangely faint peculiar, double mild numbing
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eerie and indescribable indescribably clammy slightest pleasurable peripheral voluptuous rapid and divine vague, annoying new, exhilarating peculiar, awkward harmonic orchestral pleasant, welcome gluey, unsettling new tactile hideous and agonisingly fearful agonisingly fearful eerie, helpless slightly nauseous pleasurable tactile new and horribly unpleasant undeniably orgiastic due and anxious peculiar and altogether disagreeable whole galvanic inexpressible internal sensuous and yet impersonal vague and tranquil holily intoxicating sweet and holily intoxicating distinctly acrimonious stray generous strange, indefinite leaden, thick definite claustrophobic pleasantly sad particular dual compact squeamish peculiar, nagging acute, absolute general all-pervading particular silken strange stinging full uneasy unbearably unpleasant elusively similar incredible tactile terrifyingly palpable painful stinging unhappy final rhythmic, muscle-flexing immensely peculiar transcendentally strange general pleasurable slight creepy thrilling and overwhelming unpleasant and heavy peculiarly brisk function--special poignant, painful uneasy, irritating false or uncorrected curious and unaccustomed sharp, overwhelming slight disagreeable startling and surprising dull, befogged low and physical positive pleasurable incessant and direct sweet stinging perfectly physical queer, momentary palpable, physical grossly simple horrible squashed momentary, odd physically poisonous deliciously eerie distinctly annoying swift stinging odd stinging lush and immediate foreign, cold odd, wrenching uncannily similar eerie and unaccountable irrelevant and poignant eerie, breathless sharp wrenching unpleasant constricted smaller, duller familiar numbing unabashedly sexual ticklishly amusing unfamiliar and somewhat disconcerting dizzy, painful psychologically devastating profound and even painful extremely eerie unaccountably unpleasant dreadful numbing odd, distressing foreign, thrilling momentary unaccountable weirdly pleasurable sickly horrible clammy, weighted unaccountable, disquieting immediate and acute passive tactual unpleasant internal painfully indeterminable actual, animal feverish, tremulous indescribable stinging decidedly vivid meaningless poetical rare and uncomfortable terminal and satisfying paradoxical cold happy, unexplainable physiological subjective enormous, unforeseen unpleasant, ticklish absurd, irritating fairly pleasurable uncomfortable eerie painfully guilty fundamental green green fundamental infinite, dreamy half-conscious, obscure exceedingly pleasurable systematic pleasurable indescribably gratifying abnormal spontaneous thrilling or rasping complacent and happy pleasant, undefined involuntary and vague strange and not unpleasant ominous, oppressive present bare sudden, unavoidable alien, terrifying new overwhelming familiar, unpleasant indefinably pleasurable singularly terrifying strange and irritating breathless, sickening great pervasive singular but not unpleasant sick, faint unusually sleepy completely indescribable peculiar stinging deep erotic swift delicious queer internal curiously satisfying vague military unpleasant, dry pleasantly numb decidedly assertive childishly enjoyable furry overpowering briefly glorious austere, terrifying absolutely unstoppable curious velvety peculiar perilous dizzying wrenching fascinating and somewhat terrifying momentarily eerie awful and amazing peculiar, promising stultifying, indescribable actual audio strange weary helpless, empty immensely pleasurable definitely uncomfortable extremely pleasurable convulsive, wrenching unaccustomed dreamy strangely pleasant and warm strangely pleasant moist, delightful exactly unpleasant foreign, odd utterly persuasive queer but utterly persuasive sensation-only raw fresh visual slight dizzy completely horrid ily similar thoroughly excruciating satisfyingly sensual dreamy and wholly tranquil distinct tactile curious, shivery peculiar itchy distinct, unsettling almost embarrassing and awkward subtle vibratory queer jumpy loudest and most vibrant gorgeously wicked uncomfortably loose unpleasant stinging indescribably luxurious ineffably horrifying pleasurable and compelling distant—physical peculiar, light-headed uncomfortable or oppressive keenest and sweetest faintly dreamlike oddly uncomfortable tinny, electric unmistakable anesthetized liquid, unpleasant horrible clammy tremendous, childish simultaneously terrifying and sensual inexplicable, illogical unique, heady devious and intrinsic curious and distinctly unpleasant penetrating physical odd, stupid buoyant, electrical hushed and intense peculiar, disturbing separate agreeable separate, agreeable incarnate, conscious undefined but overpowering creepy, eerie secret and pleasurable unusual and unreal somewhat unusual and unreal peculiar and not unpleasant exquisite, magical complex and indivisible wonderful and continuous proud, demoniac curious and wholly new sole distinguishable powerful, uneasy keen and distinctly sexual new and voluptuous strange agreeable indefinable uncomfortable singular and familiar odd and decidedly unpleasant heartfelt, overpowering voluminously quiescent strange stupefying stupefying, helpless simply pleasing momentary queer dreamy, heavy unfamiliar and pleasantly piquant concomitant disagreeable internal pleasurable general painful curious abominable inexplicable overpowering altogether curious and inexplicable ominous, creepy odd and exciting great, potential strange dizzy strange and ever new odd and wholly new singular hair-raising poignant and violent momentary creepy faint numb subjective ocular punctual and agreeable natural but very painful poignant and pleasing odd helpless ecstatic creepy peculiar and most disagreeable wholly pleasurable well-defined visual immediate dark blank, unpleasant sheer spectacular distinctly creepy strange and blissful subsequent or independent painfully agreeable uncanny, creepy pleasing secondary median tactile subsequently radial later radial pleasurable voluptuous perfectly calm and bright insupportable leaden agreeable vibratory possible exquisite vigorous monetary delightfully unfamiliar painful but uncomfortable directly painful but uncomfortable such tactual directly painful strong tactual abnormal tactual abnormal and quite indescribable indescribably delightful strangest physical unbearable double vagrant, subtle deliciously cool and pleasant misty, indefinite morally pleasing momentary sweet tolerably lonesome curious shivery wonderful, sudden thrilling, protective moral musical altogether nasty squeamish and altogether nasty uncomfortable, creepy peculiar familiar uncomfortably bloated involuntary, overpowering curiously familiar and unfamiliar unaccountable and terrifying disagreeable, troubled new, powerful and caustic uneasy painful delightfully creepy fine breathless definite voluptuous specific voluptuous normal voluptuous indefinite voluptuous psychical voluptuous vivid, keen horribly helpless strange stunning curious furry wholly new and delicate oddly unwilling ominous but indescribable odd, baffling new, voluptuous new and very pleasurable unexpected and unaccustomed frightful cold old net-like soft and most beautiful lovely creepy curious, certain delicious, open uneasy vague pleasing, indefinable indefinite, sickening sole new unpleasant, breathless vague and unconquerable new and strangely exhilarating terrible and very peculiar tactual or other pleasurable, exhilarating strange, intoxicated humiliating, childish agreeable mysterious drowsily luxurious slight, humble odd and puzzling pressingly insistent possible alaskan singular light-headed vague, unexplainable faint, humble torturingly sweet irresistibly sentimental oddest complex unaccountable sympathetic nameless strange mysterious, uneasy inexplicably oppressive abnormally pleasurable rapt visionary delightful and strange pleasurable, stunning intangibly unpleasant new and quite exquisite disagreeable, painful nameless, pleasurable further and electrifying agreeable but fugitive indescribably weird and thrilling elementary undifferentiated almost disagreeable fearful and sweet weird and oppressive devilish gay common and tactile curious and almost startling intense and almost defiant familiar and yet intangible violent and illicit prodigious pleasant unpleasant numb peculiarly indefinite pungent irritating distinct and sometimes painful strange unwelcome disagreeable intermittent disagreeable, uncomfortable internal feverish strong & very general meaningless visual instructive organic vaguely exquisite keenest, sweetest decidedly nauseous and creepy unpleasant startling weird and quite indescribable festive and fresh deep and popular excruciating and painful acute and stinging fleeting passive acute, violent consequently conscious suddenly sickening unparalleled and glorious general pleasant curious and uncomfortable peculiar wide-awake unlucky inseparable horrible, humorous keenly voluptuous peculiar abdominal slightly faint uncomfortable, boring resultant public fresh and festive heavy and numbing quaint and refined violent and indescribable unceasing overwhelming urgent and distressing painful or distressing painful or uneasy strange, nagging utter and overwhelming delicious physical profound and gratifying almost abashed dizzy, sickening utterly delicious numb, hollow sudden, unfamiliar strange numb deeply primitive unpleasant but familiar bloated, swollen sick, shaky brief sickening horrible loving dry, dissatisfied powerfully pungent cold, inexplicable painful or pleasurable uncomfortable and distressing truly ministerial momentary and transitory ly funny exquisitely dangerous heavy, unchanging slight and peculiar dreamy, lethargic peculiar indescribable strange subjective own defunct new liquid delicious, warm new and very peculiar glad, new warm, sentimental strange, dizzying warm, expansive shocking, sudden breathless, oppressive peculiar thrilling queer, eerie agreeable or painful strange, creepy curiously agreeable curiously guilty new and most unwelcome unmistakable, unforgettable spectacular physical faint rhythmic strange painful brief, faint sudden frightening rather pleasurable slight ticklish childish rubbery quasisexual sharp, foul strange helpless strongly pleasurable astonishingly vivid fectly gigantic furtive muscular brief, heart-stopping mild stinging nasty stinging lushly sensual distinctly wonderful different, alien strangely weary odd but welcome constant, unshakable odd, physical premature olfactory physical, pleasurable awful gummy strange but gratifying intense, wonderful dreadful numb truly dreamlike strange, heady silvery stinging revoltingly unpleasant faint itchy acutely frustrating same ticklish unknown exquisite strange and dizzying warm and altogether unaccustomed richly delicious uniquely sports-related disagreeable feverish momentary dizzy eerie, claustrophobic numbing, rubbery usual gut-wrenching brief strange odd nagging strange, surprising curious warm stunningly unfamiliar strangely unwelcome vast, unshakeable new, painful moist, exciting swift, wrenching strong, disconcerting wholly eerie markedly ominous downright ominous clammy and downright ominous brief wrenching strangely new and disturbing unpleasant and highly strange instinctively involuntary slightest tactile old, uneasy brief, nagging intensely gloomy unexpected hollow final, grim abrupt wrenching harrowing and uncanny same blood-chilling peculiar and rather frightening eerie, inexplicable unexpected pleasant odd and entirely unpleasant slick, luscious disturbing and astonishing convincingly instinctive irrational but convincingly instinctive sexually lewd ightly heady faint but repugnant glorious free-fall weird wrenching rubbery, numb odd, pleasant glorious, heart-stopping exact horrid awful twisty odd seismic delicious downward tight clotted shivery, exquisite sweet drowsy wondrous, fiery glorious, sparkling unique, nice new, electrifying real, promising purely overnight full, weighted helpless and heavy unpleasant, hollow same, hot sharply enjoyable piercingly voluptuous sure, physical acute, vivid nagging, sour organic massive odd wrenching fierce wrenching dizzying and wondrous pleasantly refreshing visceral, male remark�ably heady remarkably heady wispy, unclear delicate, exciting meaty, rubbery sheerly erotic somehow thick terrifyingly wrong familiarly painful ugly frightening numb, frightening new and thoroughly unpleasant elusive, disturbing disturbingly strange curious, vibrant strange and almost painful pleasantly erotic old jittery pleasingly exhilarating peculiar disembodied abrupt stinging peculiar but satisfying intense, dizzying strange but uplifting strangely pleasurable warm, succulent somehow strong vague but somehow strong delightful electrical sweet, dizzying entirely disagreeable uncomfortable, disturbing peculiar dizzy wonderful, breathtaking unwelcome and alien single mind-numbing actual, tactile awful free-falling hollow, ragged next pleasurable disgustingly familiar pleasant tactile almost phys-ical unpleasant scratchy strange, steadying terrible, invasive black, abnormal dangerous predatory unfamiliar, painful indescribable wrenching deep, textured mute, physical usual, hair-raising faint, giddy new and rather sticky inexplicable and irritating mysteriously unique pure, luscious stinging shocking forgetful, exhilarating intense and nauseous fiercely painful heightened physical sizzling, electric overwhelmingly mature breathtaking and unbelievable odd off-balance exciting, new slightly numbing haunting but familiar delicious, gentle erotic and intimate stupid stinging deliciously familiar huge wrenching distinctive jittery new and oddly seductive oddly seductive dizzy, wrenching sick, fiery curious, light-headed weird momentary brief stinging pure tactile pleasant, loose strange, twisty profound purple strange lightheaded liquid guilty peculiar, buoyant uneasy, all-pervading brief, atavistic eerie rasping black, dizzying unbearably gentle old nightmarish strange, exhilarating temporary blinding delightful and exquisite grateful or unacceptable occasional nauseous smallest agreeable next agreeable sudden, unknown full and wide unusual and disagreeable peculiar dreamy delightful and immediate incessant and implacable pleasing gentle almost heady definite and alive keen sensual sharp and oppressive terrible and god-like entirely new and pleasurable familiar, unknown now unpleasant deep and virtuous great or universal strangely delicious peculiar tactual entirely fresh and new queer creepy unpleasant, hot remarkable and rather disagreeable disagreeable and disgusting wonderfully meaningless distinct and fervent curious numb new and distinctly pleasant violent and divine gloriously restful dense, stuffy curiously pugnacious curious sickening giddy, faint peculiar creepy comfortable and exhilarating terribly faint dumb depressing curious creepy dizzy, helpless giddy weak helpless drowsy pleasing, exhilarating curious, hot strange and very peculiar additional painful thrilling, delicious former joyful strange and poignant purely sympathetic fine monetary mere tactual misty, giddy peculiar weary abominably unpleasant next harrowing subtle indefinite dreadful and indefinable painful and widespread funny stinging painfully faint painful, numbing delightful, refreshing own half-conscious languorous, peaceful pleasurable corporeal cold and macabre subtle, warm painful and galling jagged brown pleasantly stinging powerful and caustic curious, bitter ineffably exquisite internal uneasy particular exhilarating feeble dizzy thrilling, wonderful specific genital curious and unnatural new and wholly delightful discomfited, helpless curious reminiscent great and unpleasant sudden numb cold, indefinite sick faint slight expectant new and very painful gloriously drunken curious sick odd but delightful sweet and ripe slightly stinging faint giddy amazingly delightful peculiarly uneasy purely deceptive uncomfortable, uneasy drowsy, languid deliciously thrilling delicious animal smart stinging delightful, languid strange, dizzy foolish, oppressive peculiarly overwhelming uneasy or unnatural soft, joyous new and very welcome sad or unpleasant deep and unpleasant wholly new and unaccountable dizzying sweet delicious, childish peculiar empty vague subjective actional sharp revolting sweetest and most salutary unexpected thrilling deliciously shivery wholly miserable peculiar dazed decidedly nauseous old, creepy angry, uncomfortable clammy, eerie new and altogether delightful soft and cool creepy, mysterious curious, sickening acutely desirable unnecessary disagreeable momentary human dazed and troubled dull and uneasy slightly pleasurable peculiar prophetic comfortable physical wonderful and weird wide, vague curiously oppressive queer stinging delightful and pleasurable highly vivid and clear delicious, magical presumably delightful annoying stinging new and somewhat terrifying secret proud obscure and undetermined now indescribable pleasant, vital cloudy, vague indescribable agonizing sharp, thrilling pleasing or happy moderate constant personal pleasurable creepy, sickening faint cool next conscious peculiar sweet curious and unpleasant altogether curious keen and painful horribly unpleasant present acute divine and glorious slightly sickening intensely wicked horrible rasping subjective visual ordinary morbid childish and boyish painful and profound slightly dizzy rather light-headed sick, hollow unexpected but familiar slightly giddy thankful, happy tight, swollen old disagreeable almost numbing darker and deeper sharp, stinging pleasurable unbearably intense sharp stinging sickly warm full tactile extremely compelling suspiciously moist odd, warm pure, blinding unusual but well-known impossible double decidedly weird distinct and unpleasant wholly overwhelming sick, tight wholly tranquil slight nagging embarrassing and awkward sudden disquieting odd and uncomfortable odd and uneasy slow and sumptuous curiously archaic odd, indescribable odd, hollow same heart-stopping peculiar and unpleasant curious dreamy simultaneously terrifying strange, sickening actual real-time strange moist decidedly uneasy delicious and exciting singular and disagreeable vague, unquiet magnificent and unparalleled mysterious, ineffable joyous youthful intolerable and sickening pleasantly piquant blissful new strangely agreeable listless, hopeless profound and amazing stable organic queer, thrilling startling, new passionate and exciting joyous, free familiar dizzying great and very powerful languid and sleepy horrible, indescribable delicious, exhilarating occasional general weird and unaccountable least voluptuous 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Words to Describe sensation

As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "sensation" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this website, the top 5 adjectives for "sensation" are: odd numbing, queer momentary, oppressed, heavy, bought--personal, and latest overnight. There are 995 other words to describe sensation listed above. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe sensation suits your needs.

If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "sensation" isn't confusing the engine in this manner.

Note also that if there aren't many sensation adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech. For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. I may look into fixing this in the future. You might also be wondering: What type of word is sensation?

Describing Words

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!

Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.

Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).

The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.

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