sense
/sens/
Definition
Noun:
- A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus: One of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
- A feeling or perception produced through the senses: A general conscious awareness or impression.
- A natural understanding, appreciation, or ability: An intuitive or practical understanding of something.
- Sound practical judgment; common sense: The ability to make reasonable decisions.
- The meaning or interpretation of a word, expression, or situation: One of the possible significations of a word or phrase.
Verb:
- To perceive or become aware of something by a feeling, often instinctively: To detect or become conscious of something not through direct sensory input but intuitively.
- To detect or measure something automatically: For a device or organism to register the presence or properties of something.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- Sight is one of the five basic senses.
- She had a sudden sense of unease.
- He has a great sense of humor.
- It's time you showed some sense and stopped taking risks.
- The word 'bank' has several different senses.
Verb:
- I could sense that he was angry.
- The security system can sense motion.
Advanced Usage
- "To make sense": To be logical, reasonable, or understandable.
- Your explanation doesn't make sense.
- "To come to one's senses": To start thinking and behaving reasonably after a period of foolishness.
- He finally came to his senses and apologized.
- "To talk sense": To speak in a reasonable or logical way.
- For once, he was talking sense.
- "In a sense": From one particular point of view; partly true.
- In a sense, she was right, but the situation was more complicated.
Variants and Related Words
- Senseless (adj): Lacking common sense; foolish. Also, unconscious.
- It was a senseless act of violence.
- Sensible (adj): Having or showing good sense; practical. Also, perceptible by the senses.
- That's a very sensible suggestion.
- Sensitive (adj): Quick to detect or respond to slight changes, signals, or influences. Easily offended or upset.
- The device is sensitive to light.
- Sensation (n): A physical feeling; widespread excitement or interest.
- She felt a burning sensation.
Synonyms
- Noun: Feeling, awareness, impression, intuition, wisdom, meaning, definition.
- Verb: Perceive, feel, detect, intuit, discern.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Sense out: To try to understand something by careful thought or investigation (less common).
- We need to sense out what their real intentions are.
Related Idioms
- "A sixth sense": An intuitive power of perception beyond the five traditional senses.
- She has a sixth sense for when something is wrong.
- "To take leave of one's senses": To go mad; to act irrationally.
- Have you taken leave of your senses? You can't do that!
- "To frighten/scare someone out of their senses": To terrify someone.
- The loud noise frightened me out of my senses.
Noun
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a natural appreciation or ability
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a keen musical sense
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a good sense of timing
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sound practical judgment
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Common sense is not so common
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he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples
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fortunately she had the good sense to run away
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the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
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in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
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the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
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the dictionary gave several senses for the word
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in the best sense charity is really a duty
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the signifier is linked to the signified
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a general conscious awareness
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a sense of security
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a sense of happiness
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a sense of danger
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a sense of self
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Verb
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comprehend
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I sensed the real meaning of his letter
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become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
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I sense his hostility
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i smell trouble
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smell out corruption
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detect some circumstance or entity automatically
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This robot can sense the presence of people in the room
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particle detectors sense ionization
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perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
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He felt the wind
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She felt an object brushing her arm
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He felt his flesh crawl
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She felt the heat when she got out of the car
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