- (n.) A purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A state of excited interest or feeling or that which causes it.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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