different between fluster vs sensation

English

Etymology

From a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language, akin to Icelandic flaustra (“to be flustered”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Verb

fluster (third-person singular simple present flusters, present participle flustering, simple past and past participle flustered)

1. (dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
2. (by extension) To confuse; befuddle; throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.

3. (intransitive) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.

   • the flustring, vain-glorious Greeks

Derived terms

• flustered (adjective)
• flustering (adjective, present participle)

Translations

Noun

fluster (plural flusters)

1. A state of being flustered; overwrought confusion.

Anagrams

• RESTful, fluters, furtles, restful

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Medieval Latin sensatio, from Latin sensus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?n-s?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /s?n?se???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

sensation (countable and uncountable, plural sensations)

1. A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.

   • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
2. A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.

Hyponyms

• Thesaurus:sensation

Related terms

• sensational
• sensation fiction
• sensation novel
• sense
• sensible
• sensitive
• sensory
• sensual

Translations

Further reading

• sensation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sensation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sensation at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Estonians, insonates

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin sensationem, accusative of sensatio, from Latin sensus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.sa.sj??/

Noun

sensation f (plural sensations)

1. sensation

Derived terms

• faire sensation
• sensation forte

Further reading

• “sensation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).