"thermal sensation" meaning in All languages combined

See thermal sensation on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: thermal sensations [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} thermal sensation (countable and uncountable, plural thermal sensations)
  1. (meteorology) The subjective feeling of temperature in one's body, differing from the actual temperature. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-thermal_sensation-en-noun-7znhcAlk Categories (other): Meteorology Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences
  2. (neurology) The sensory perception of thermal stimuli. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: thermosensation Related terms: thermal comfort
    Sense id: en-thermal_sensation-en-noun-iQJ9vgit Categories (other): Neurology, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 32 68 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 72 Topics: medicine, neurology, neuroscience, sciences

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thermal sensations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "thermal sensation (countable and uncountable, plural thermal sensations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Meteorology",
          "orig": "en:Meteorology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              115,
              132
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 August 26, Eric Ralls, “Indoor comfort depends more on your skin than the air temperature”, in Earth.com, United States, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025:",
          "text": "A new review brought together 172 studies published since 2000 and found strong links between skin temperature and thermal sensation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The subjective feeling of temperature in one's body, differing from the actual temperature."
      ],
      "id": "en-thermal_sensation-en-noun-7znhcAlk",
      "links": [
        [
          "meteorology",
          "meteorology"
        ],
        [
          "temperature",
          "temperature"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(meteorology) The subjective feeling of temperature in one's body, differing from the actual temperature."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Neurology",
          "orig": "en:Neurology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 62",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              73,
              90
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2023 June 6, William A. Haseltine, “Too Hot To Handle: Restoring Thermal Sensation To Upper-Limb Amputees”, in Forbes, United States, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The sensory perception of thermal stimuli."
      ],
      "id": "en-thermal_sensation-en-noun-iQJ9vgit",
      "links": [
        [
          "neurology",
          "neurology"
        ],
        [
          "sensory",
          "sensory"
        ],
        [
          "thermal",
          "thermal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neurology) The sensory perception of thermal stimuli."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "27 73",
          "word": "thermal comfort"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thermosensation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "neurology",
        "neuroscience",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thermal sensation"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "thermal sensations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "thermal sensation (countable and uncountable, plural thermal sensations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "thermal comfort"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Meteorology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              115,
              132
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 August 26, Eric Ralls, “Indoor comfort depends more on your skin than the air temperature”, in Earth.com, United States, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025:",
          "text": "A new review brought together 172 studies published since 2000 and found strong links between skin temperature and thermal sensation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The subjective feeling of temperature in one's body, differing from the actual temperature."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meteorology",
          "meteorology"
        ],
        [
          "temperature",
          "temperature"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(meteorology) The subjective feeling of temperature in one's body, differing from the actual temperature."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Neurology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              73,
              90
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2023 June 6, William A. Haseltine, “Too Hot To Handle: Restoring Thermal Sensation To Upper-Limb Amputees”, in Forbes, United States, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The sensory perception of thermal stimuli."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "neurology",
          "neurology"
        ],
        [
          "sensory",
          "sensory"
        ],
        [
          "thermal",
          "thermal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(neurology) The sensory perception of thermal stimuli."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thermosensation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "neurology",
        "neuroscience",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "thermal sensation"
}

Download raw JSONL data for thermal sensation meaning in All languages combined (2.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.