English Synonyms and Antonyms

despatch is to send hastily or very promptly, ordinarily with a destination in view; to dismiss is to send away
from oneself without reference to a destination; as, to dismiss a clerk, an application, or an annoying subject.
To discharge is to send away so as to relieve a person or thing of a load; we discharge a gun or discharge the
contents; as applied to persons, discharge is a harsher term than dismiss. To emit is to send forth from within,
with no reference to a destination; as, the sun emits light and heat. Transmit, from the Latin, is a dignified
term, often less vigorous than the Saxon send, but preferable at times in literary or scientific use; as, to
transmit the crown, or the feud, from generation to generation; to transmit a charge of electricity. Transmit
fixes the attention more on the intervening agency, as send does upon the points of departure and destination.
Antonyms:
bring, convey, give, hold, receive, carry, get, hand, keep, retain.
Prepositions:
To send from the hand to or toward (rarely at) a mark; send to a friend by a messenger or by mail; send a
person into banishment; send a shell among the enemy.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
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SENSATION.
Synonyms:
emotion, feeling, perception, sense.
Sensation is the mind's consciousness due to a bodily affection, as of heat or cold; perception is the cognition
of some external object which is the cause or occasion of the sensation; the sensation of heat may be
connected with the perception of a fire. While sensations are connected with the body, emotions, as joy, grief,
etc., are wholly of the mind. "As the most of them [the sensations] are positively agreeable or the opposite,
they are nearly akin to those emotions, as hope or terror, or those passions, as anger and envy, which are
acknowledged by all to belong exclusively to the spirit, and to involve no relation whatever to matter or the
bodily organism. Such feelings are not infrequently styled sensations, though improperly." PORTER Human
Intellect § 112, p. 128. [S. '90.] Feeling is a general term popularly denoting what is felt, whether through the
body or by the mind alone, and includes both sensation and emotion. A sense is an organ or faculty of
sensation or of perception.
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SENSIBILITY.
Synonyms:
feeling, impressibility, sensitiveness, susceptibility.
Sensibility in the philosophical sense, denotes the capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the
intellect and the will. (Compare synonyms for SENSATION.) In popular use sensibility denotes sometimes
capacity of feeling of any kind; as, sensibility to heat or cold; sometimes, a peculiar readiness to be the subject
of feeling, especially of the higher feelings; as, the sensibility of the artist or the poet; a person of great or fine
sensibility. Sensitiveness denotes an especial delicacy of sensibility, ready to be excited by the slightest cause,
as displayed, for instance, in the "sensitive-plant." Susceptibility is rather a capacity to take up, receive, and,
as it were, to contain feeling, so that a person of great susceptibility is capable of being not only readily but
deeply moved; sensitiveness is more superficial, susceptibility more pervading. Thus, in physics, the
sensitiveness of a magnetic needle is the ease with which it may be deflected, as by another magnet; its