sense
noun
[ sɛns ]
• a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
• "the bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk"
Similar:
sensory faculty,
feeling,
sensation,
perception,
sight,
hearing,
touch,
taste,
smell,
sixth sense,
sensibility,
• a feeling that something is the case.
• "she had the sense of being a political outsider"
• a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.
• "he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings"
Similar:
wisdom,
common sense,
good sense,
practicality,
sagacity,
sharpness,
discernment,
perception,
native wit,
mother wit,
wit,
level-headedness,
intelligence,
cleverness,
astuteness,
shrewdness,
judgement,
soundness of judgement,
understanding,
reason,
logic,
brain,
brains,
gumption,
nous,
horse sense,
savvy,
loaf,
common,
smarts,
• a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.
• "it is not clear which sense of the word ‘characters’ is intended in this passage"
Similar:
meaning,
definition,
import,
denotation,
signification,
significance,
purport,
implication,
intention,
nuance,
drift,
gist,
thrust,
tenor,
burden,
theme,
message,
essence,
spirit,
substance,
• a property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other.
• "the cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite sense"
sense
verb
• perceive by a sense or senses.
• "with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days"
Similar:
discern,
feel,
observe,
notice,
get the impression of,
recognize,
pick up,
be/become cognizant of,
be/become aware of,
be/become conscious of,
get/come to know,
tell,
distinguish,
make out,
find,
identify,
comprehend,
apprehend,
see,
discover,
learn,
appreciate,
realize,
suspect,
have a funny feeling,
have a hunch,
just know,
divine,
intuit,
conceive,
catch on to,
twig,
cognize,
• (of a machine or similar device) detect.
• "an optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor"
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘meaning’): from Latin sensus ‘faculty of feeling, thought, meaning’, from sentire ‘feel’. The verb dates from the mid 16th century.
