sense impression

Questions about sense impression

What does sense impression mean?

sense impression means "an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation".

What is another word for sense impression?

Close synonyms include sensation, esthesis, aesthesis, sense experience, sense datum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sense impression a common word?

sense impression is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.