sense

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sense

She has a good sense of rhythm and moves to the music.

Definition

  1. 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.

  2. 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.
sense

She has a good sense of rhythm and moves to the music.

Noun
  1. a natural appreciation or ability
    • a keen musical sense
    • a good sense of timing
  2. sound practical judgment
    • Common sense is not so common
    • he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples
    • fortunately she had the good sense to run away
  3. the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
    • in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
  4. the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
    • the dictionary gave several senses for the word
    • in the best sense charity is really a duty
    • the signifier is linked to the signified
  5. a general conscious awareness
    • a sense of security
    • a sense of happiness
    • a sense of danger
    • a sense of self
Verb
  1. comprehend
    • I sensed the real meaning of his letter
  2. become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
    • I sense his hostility
    • i smell trouble
    • smell out corruption
  3. detect some circumstance or entity automatically
    • This robot can sense the presence of people in the room
    • particle detectors sense ionization
  4. perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
    • He felt the wind
    • She felt an object brushing her arm
    • He felt his flesh crawl
    • She felt the heat when she got out of the car

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