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sense
noun
    1. Any of the five main faculties used by an animal to obtain information about its external or internal environment, namely sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
    2. An awareness or appreciation of, or an ability to make judgements regarding, some specified thing.
      Example: She has a good sense of direction
      Example: He has bad business sense
      Thesaurus: appreciation, capability, talent, discernment, understanding, sensitivity, capacity, faculty.
    3. Soundness of mind; one's wits or reason.
      Example: He's lost his senses
      Thesaurus: reason, logic, judgement, common sense, discretion, tact, intelligence, diplomacy, sanity, coherence.
      Form: senses
    4. Wisdom; practical worth.
      Example: There's no sense in doing it now
    5. A general feeling or emotion, not perceived by any of the five natural powers.
      Example: a sense of guilt
      Thesaurus: perception, awareness, impression, aura, scent, apprehension, prescience, intuition.
    6. General, overall meaning.
      Example: They understood the sense of the passage, if not all the words
      Thesaurus: meaning, import, definition, denotation, signification, connotation, implication, content, intention.
    7. Specific meaning
      Example: In what sense do you mean?
    8. General opinion; consensus.
      Example: the sense of the meeting
      Thesaurus: consensus, opinion, drift, tendency, direction, sentiment.
verb sensed, sensing
    1. To detect a stimulus by means of any of the five main senses.
      Thesaurus: detect, perceive, observe.
    2. To be aware of something by means other than the five main senses.
      Example: I sensed that someone was following me
      Thesaurus: perceive, divine, realize, comprehend, understand, grasp, appreciate, guess.
    3. To realize or comprehend.
Idiom: bring someone to their senses
    To make them recognize the facts; to make them understand that they must rectify their behaviour.
Idiom: come to one's senses
    To act sensibly and rationally after a period of foolishness.
    To regain consciousness.
Idiom: in a sense
    In one respect; in a way.
Idiom: make sense
    To be understandable.
    To be wise, rational or reasonable.
Idiom: make sense of something
    To understand it; to see the purpose or explanation in it.
Idiom: take leave of one's senses
    To begin behaving unreasonably or irrationally; to go mad.
Etymology: 14c: from Latin sensus, from sentire to feel.



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