What's the difference between sensation and titillation?

Sensation


Definition:

  • (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 purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.
  • (n.) A state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
  • (2) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
  • (3) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
  • (4) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
  • (5) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
  • (6) The results showed the kind of needling sensation while acupuncture had close relation with the appearance of PSM and the acupuncture effect.
  • (7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
  • (8) No significant changes in maximal work load, exercise time, systolic blood pressure at maximal work load, or subjective sensation of well-being could be demonstrated during combined drug treatment.
  • (9) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
  • (10) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
  • (11) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (12) Work over the past 17 years has consistently failed to reveal any objective sign accompanying the transient sensations that some individuals experience after the experimental ingestion of monosodium glutamate and it is questionable whether the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' has any validity.
  • (13) Forty-four patients of meralgia paraesthetica presented with combination of symptoms mainly of numbness with loss of superficial sensation on the anterolateral aspect of a thigh were selected for the study.
  • (14) The incidence of phantom pain and nonpainful phantom sensations was 13.3% and 15.0%, respectively, 3 weeks after mastectomy, 12.7% and 11.8%, respectively, after a year, and 17.4% and 11.8%, respectively, after 6 years.
  • (15) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
  • (16) The return of sensation is of particular benefit to elderly patients who make up the greatest number of patients in the series.
  • (17) The subjects described the thirst sensations as mainly due to a dry unpleasant tasting mouth, which was promptly relieved by drinking.
  • (18) Similarly, subjects that were trained to focus their attention on the magnitude of the immediate (first) pain sensation evoked by brief electrical or mechanical stimulation did not report reduction by morphine of pain attributed to conduction in myelinated peripheral nociceptors.
  • (19) This scale thus provides a reproducible and sensitive estimation of the sensation of dyspnoea during effort and thus appears valuable in evaluating the subjective response in therapeutic trials in patients who are dyspnoeic on effort.
  • (20) Examination revealed that five patients in the nerve divided group had a small area of altered sensation but this was not significant either for the patient or statistically between the groups.

Titillation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.
  • (n.) Any pleasurable sensation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It was a certain kind of titillation the shop offered," the critic Matthew Collings has written, "sexual but also hopeless, destructive, foolish, funny, sad."
  • (2) But even when these titillating accounts touch on real concerns, they do not really reflect the great mass of everyday teenage social behaviour: the online chat, the texting, the surfing, and the emergence of a new teenage sphere that is conducted digitally.
  • (3) As a result, the segment was edited in order to obscure any inappropriate detail and it was felt that the overall effect was comedic rather than titillating."
  • (4) In a 2014 article about the first season, Slate’s J Bryan Lowder wrote : “Straight critics and viewers seeking liberal cred will find an easy tool here; Looking is, after all, gay without any of the hard parts (dick included), gay that’s polite and comfortable and maybe a little titillating but definitely not all up in your face about it.” The week’s best new TV: Looking, BoJack Horseman and Vikings Read more Despite the brickbats, Looking was renewed for a second season, and matured into a layered portrait of contemporary gay friendships and relationships.
  • (5) The coming out, or in some cases outing, of male celebrities certainly exists, and does result in media attention – Tom Daley and Wentworth Miller – but the angle of coverage is not titillation or surprise.
  • (6) It doesn't bother me that men will watch to be titillated, as it's part of life.
  • (7) I know your readers may find it titillating but it's depressing to keep talking about it".
  • (8) The "titillating details" of the "sordid affairs" of the Anna Nicole saga "enticed" Bahamians and changed the face of the island's politics, two confidential memos sent by the embassy in Nassau reveal.
  • (9) We don't yet have the " feelies ", Huxley's cinemas in Brave New World – where the cinema spectator is titillated by the images and by what sounds like a vibrating seat.
  • (10) And while it's true that gridiron jocks can't seem to perform unless interrupted every 10 seconds by schmaltzy corporations peddling their wares, brass bands booming across the pitch and cheerleaders wiggling and jiggling like wind-up titillators, it's also true that American spectators do at least get what they're promised - it may take five hours but eventually they will see 60 minutes of football.
  • (11) To me it wasn't titillating, sensationalist, or even entertaining, but in terms of the way female servants were treated by those above and below stairs, it was accurate: many were raped, mistreated or subjected to abuse.
  • (12) There is a titillating investment in framing women as covertly aggressive.
  • (13) At the same time, the cable adds, the "titillating details of Anna Nicole's sordid affairs have enticed the Bahamian public to give renewed focus to government indiscretions".
  • (14) In the end perhaps the most spectacularly titillating moment of Liverpool's day in the high court came right at the beginning with news that the divorced Jordan and Peter Andre were scheduled to appear simultaneously in the court next door.
  • (15) When the Victoria's Secret Bond Street store opened there were rumours that upscale labels on the street didn't like the brand "lowering the tone", but there is nothing remotely titillating about the Victoria's Secret shopping experience.
  • (16) Through such words, Powell won votes and titillated white British fears of people with different coloured skins.
  • (17) You could argue this isn't as titillating as onstage megalomania or animatronic twerking.
  • (18) He had heard Hitler speak and was titillated by the aesthetics and sexuality of Nazism.
  • (19) By merely changing the antebellum language, the reactions could be recycled into our current tabloid newspapers and titillating TV programs as if the tragedy occurred yesterday.
  • (20) Set in Japan - and utterly unlike the predictable movie confection of bath-house titillation and exploding aluminium - Fleming's novel has the reclusive villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, make himself over as benefactor to the suicidally inclined and terminally ill who come to the garden to fade over and out amid toxic blossoms.

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