bodily sensation
What nerves report
A bodily sensation is a physical feeling experienced in the body—pain, pressure, warmth, tingling, hunger, nausea.
The term distinguishes physical feelings from emotional ones, though the line blurs: anxiety produces bodily sensations like tightness in the chest, and bodily sensations can trigger emotions.
She focused on the bodily sensation of her breath entering and leaving.
- feelingSensed inner state
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
- tinglingSlight stinging sensation
- pins and needlesTingling in extremities
phantom limb · warmth · chill · ache · pressure · itch · pulse · racing heart · throb · goosebumps · shiver · cold sweat · prickle · heat · hot flash · cold · pain · dull ache
bodily sensationthought
Mental concept or reflection
mental state · emotion · cognition · abstract thought · mental process
bodily sensationnumbness
Loss of sensation
anesthesia · insensibility · sensory deprivation · paralysis · desensitization
body, bodily, bodies, bodied, bodyless, embody, embodied, embodiment, sense