visual sensation

1. 1.

   the perceptual experience of seeing

   “the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision”

   “he had a visual sensation of intense light”

   Synonymsvision

   Broadersensation

Questions about visual sensation

What does visual sensation mean?

visual sensation means "the perceptual experience of seeing".

What is another word for visual sensation?

Close synonyms include vision. 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 visual sensation a common word?

visual sensation 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.