Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sensation anticipatory of a future sensation; a sensation due to imagining an object which is expected to produce a similar sensation through the channels of external sense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Previous sensation, notion, or idea.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete previous sensation, notion, or idea

Etymologies

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pre- +‎ sensation

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Examples

  • Concerning the faculty of presensation, it is worth while to say a little more.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

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