Sense

Noun

 * 1) One of the methods for a living being to gather data about the world; sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
 * 2) A general conscious awareness.
 * a sense of security
 * 1) Sound practical judgment, as in common sense
 * 2) The meaning, reason, or value of something.
 * You don’t make any sense.
 * 1) A natural appreciation or ability
 * A keen musical sense
 * 1)  The way that a referent is presented.
 * 2)  A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
 * 3)  One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
 * 4)  One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:sense

Related terms

 * sensation
 * sensible
 * sensitive
 * sensual
 * sensuous

Verb

 * 1) To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
 * 2) To instinctively be aware.
 * She immediately sensed her disdain.
 * 1) To comprehend.

Adjectives for Sense
real; miraculous; pleading; evil; indefatigable; cowering; abounding; moral; accommodated; final; soothing; confused; instinctive; crude; vulgar; intuitive; prophetic; exaggerated; dreary; supplementary; aesthetic; helpless; wakeful; superstitious; false; disparaging; practical; deepening; different; unscientific; distinct; inward; common; crushing; artistic; vigorous; corporeal; elementary; glimmering; intellectual; penetrating; cruel; mystical; colder; sterling; surly; strictest; baffled; extravagant; sickening; normal; suffocating; human; secret; dusty; serene; shrewd; automatic; unwitting; insidious; critical; curious; divers (pi); literal; momentary; accretive; mobile; external; exhilarating; genuine; superior; just; dull; seeming; modest; jubilant; cultivated; mysterious; innate; brute; scriptural; academlic; imperturbable; half-conscious; delicate; lingering; practical; devout; sobering; pedagogical; magnetic; noisome; leaping; ethnological; renewed; morbid; anguished; realizing; universal; humble; dimmer; rhetorical; subtile; eminent; sardonic; impaired; hazy; pleasant; constant; tacit; painful; stable; jealous; complimentary; puzzled; narrow; uncanny; absorbed; dewy; rigorous; caviling; kennel; boiling; precocious; jaded; blunted; perceptive; untechnical; warring; palpitating;  esoteric;  dismal; arithmetical; architectonic; half-dormant; degraded; irresistable; pseudo-pantheistic; nascent; sudden; immanent; plain; wretched; terrible; withering; odious; balancing; apparent; military; dim; symbolic; inborn; reputable; etymological; hypothetical; inef¬faceable; eternal; sleepy; inarticulate; pedantic; acquired; implicit; benumbed; sol¬emn; keener; reverted; exterior; lofty; magic; stored; languid; testifying; lively; finer; abstract; social; quibbling; amiable; earnest; material; mobile; offended; sound; exceeding; deficient; due; mechanical; seeing; pathological; receptive; grosser; slumbering; acute; gratified; oppressive.

Adverbs for Sense
intuitively; instinctively; vaguely; uncannily; morbidly; nervously; miraculously; prophetically; secretly; automatically; mysteriously; jealously; precociously; keenly.

Thesaurus
IQ, absorb, acceptation, admissibility, affect, affection, affective meaning, air, anticipate, appreciate, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, apprehend, apprehension, artistic judgment, assimilate, atmosphere, aura, awareness, balance, be aware of, be conscious of, be sensible of, be with one, bearing, believe, brains, burden, caliber, capacity, catch, catch on, center, climate, cognizance, coherence, coloring, common sense, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, connoisseurship, connotation, consciousness, consequence, consider, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, core, credit, critical niceness, criticalness, deductive power, deem, delicacy, denotation, descry, detect, dig, digest, discern, discernment, discretion, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, distinguish, divine, drift, due sense of, effect, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade, esemplastic power, espy, essence, experience, extension, faculty, fastidiousness, fathom, feel, feel deeply, feel intuitively, feeling, feeling tone, fine palate, finesse, focus, follow, force, foreboding, foresight, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, gist, good sense, grammatical meaning, grasp, gumption, gut reaction, have, have a feeling, have a hunch, have a sensation, have it taped, have the impression, hear, heartthrob, hold, horse sense, idea, ideation, identify, impact, implication, import, impression, integrative power, intellect, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, intelligibility, intendment, intension, intuit, intuition, judgement, judgment, judiciousness, just know, justifiability, justness, ken, know, knowledge, learn, level head, levelheadedness, lexical meaning, literal meaning, logic, logicality, logicalness, lucidity, make out, making distinctions, marbles, master, matter, meaning, meat, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, message, milieu, mind, mother wit, native wit, niceness of distinction, nicety, note, notice, nous, nuance, nucleus, overtone, palate, passion, penetration, perceive, percept, perception, pertinence, pick up, pith, plain sense, plausibility, point, power of mind, practical consequence, practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, presentiment, profound sense, prudence, purport, quality, quick-wittedness, quickness, range of meaning, rationality, reaction, read, real meaning, realize, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, reasoning power, receive an impression, recognition, recognize, reference, referent, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, relation, relevance, respond, respond to stimuli, response, response to stimuli, sagacity, saneness, sanity, savvy, scope, scope of mind, see, seize, seize the meaning, selectiveness, semantic cluster, semantic field, sensation, sense impression, sense perception, sensibility, sensibleness, sensitivity, sensory experience, sentiment, short, significance, significancy, signification, significatum, signifie, smarts, smell, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, sound sense, soundness, span of meaning, spirit, spot, spy, structural meaning, substance, subtlety, sum, sum and substance, suspect, sweet reason, symbolic meaning, tact, tactfulness, take, take in, taste, tenor, think, thinking power, thrust, tone, totality of associations, touch, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, undercurrent, understand, understanding, undertone, upshot, value, wisdom, wit

Etymology
From, from sens:, sen:, san:; partly from  sensus:, from sentio:; partly of  origin (whence also  sen:,  senno:), from  *undefined:, from. Both Latin and Germanic from. Compare assener:, forcené:. More at send.

Noun

 * Catalan:
 * Croatian: osjet
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 * Hebrew: חוש
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: céadfa
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 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: maņa
 * Lithuanian: nuojauta, uoslė
 * Norwegian: sens
 * Polish:
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 * Slovene: čutilo, čut
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 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: duyu
 * Volapük: sien


 * Arabic:
 * Catalan: sensació
 * Chinese: 感覺, 感觉 (gǎnjué)
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 * Latvian: sajūta
 * Lithuanian: jutimas, jausmas
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 * Scottish Gaelic: ciall, brìgh , mothachadh , faireachdainn , cudthrom
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 * Telugu: స్పృహ (spRha)


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 * Greek: νόημα
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 * Latvian: jēga
 * Lithuanian: prasmė
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 * Arabic:
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 * Chinese: 意義, 意义 (yìyì)
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 * Hebrew: מובן


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 * Korean: 감각 (gamgak)
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 * Finnish: pyörimissuunta


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 * : 官能 (guānnèng), 感官 (gǎnguāng), 识别力 (shíbié lì)

Verb

 * Dutch: gewaarworden, waarnemen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: חש


 * Japanese:
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 * Turkish: algılamak, duyumsamak


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:, 察する,
 * Mandarin: 感觉到


 * Portuguese:
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 * Japanese:, 察する,


 * Spanish: dar sentido


 * : sentire


 * Italian: sentire

Anagrams

 * senes

Preposition

 * 1) without

Etymology
Ultimately from sine:. Compare French sans.