thermal sensation
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.66 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The subjective feeling of temperature in one's body, differing from the actual temperature.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A new review brought together 172 studies published since 2000 and found strong links between skin temperature and thermal sensation."
- "Recent advances in prosthetic design for upper-limb amputees may restore thermal sensation in the near future. Over 180,000 people undergo limb amputation in the United States every year. An estimate from 2017 claims that over 57 million people worldwide had undergone limb amputation due to traumatic causes, a number that has likely risen due to global population growth."