If his love-affairs stopped short of the gratification of the senses, they involved a perpetual fondling and caressing of those effeminate sensibilities of his into that condition of hyper-Aesthesia which, though Sterne regarded it as the strength, was in reality the weakness, of his art.
"Sterne"
H.D. Traill
They call it supergastral Aesthesia now.
"The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities"
Stephen Leacock