Definition of senses Senses
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- senses (Noun)
Plural of sense.
Part of speech
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| sense - 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" | ||
| sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty | ||
| mental faculty, faculty, module one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | ||
| sense modality, sensory system, modality the body's system of sense organs | ||
| sense - a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self" | ||
| cognisance, awareness, consciousness, knowingness, cognizance having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive" | ||
| sense of direction an awareness of your orientation in space | ||
| sense - 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" | ||
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| signification, meaning, significance, import the idea that is intended; "What is the meaning of this proverb?" | ||
| sense - a natural appreciation or ability; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing" | ||
| sense - 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" | ||
| common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit | ||
| sagaciousness, sagacity, discernment, judgement, judgment the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | ||
| logic reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic" | ||
| nous common sense; "she has great social nous" | ||
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| sense - comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter" | ||
| understand know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" | ||
| sense - detect some circumstance or entity automatically; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization" | ||
| detect, notice, discover, observe, find discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" | ||
| sense - 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" | ||
| feel | ||
| perceive, comprehend become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest" | ||
| sense - become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption" | ||
| smell, smell out | ||
| perceive become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest" | ||
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Wiktionary
- sense (Noun)
One of the methods for a living being to gather data about the world; sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. - sense (Noun)
A general conscious awareness. - sense (Noun)
Sound practical judgment, as in common sense. - sense (Noun)
The meaning, reason, or value of something. - sense (Noun)
A natural appreciation or ability. - sense (Noun)
The way that a referent is presented. - sense (Noun)
A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary. - sense (Noun)
One of two opposite directions in which a vector especially of motion may point. See also polarity. - sense (Noun)
One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise. - sense (Verb)
To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel. - sense (Verb)
To instinctively be aware. - sense (Verb)
To comprehend.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
- sense (v. t.)
A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature. - sense (v. t.)
Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. - sense (v. t.)
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. - sense (v. t.)
Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. - sense (v. t.)
That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. - sense (v. t.)
Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. - sense (v. t.)
Moral perception or appreciation. - sense (v. t.)
One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface. - sense (v. t.)
To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ī©
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The way in which something can be interpreted.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary š
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sens, n. a faculty by which objects are perceived: perception: discernment: understanding: power or soundness of judgment: reason: opinion: conviction: import: immediate consciousness.āns. Senseā²-bodā²y, a sense-organ in acalephs supposed to have a visual or an auditory function; Senseā²-capā²sule, a receptive chamber for sensory perception, connected with the ear, eye, and nose; Senseā²-cenā²tre, a centre of sensation.āadj. Sensed, chosen as to sense or meaning.āns. Senseā²-elā²ement, an external sensation, as an element of perception; Senseā²-filā²ament, a filament having the function of an organ of sense.āadjs. Senseā²ful (Spens.), full of sense or meaning, reasonable, judicious, perceptive; Senseā²less, without sense: incapable of feeling: wanting sympathy: foolish: unreasonable.āadv. Senseā²lessly.āns. Senseā²lessness; Senseā²-orā²gan, any organ of sense, as the eye, ear, or nose; Senseā²-percepā²tion, perception by means of the senses; Senseā²-rhythm, Hebrew parallelism; Senseā²-skelā²eton, the framework of a sense-organ; Sensibilā²ity, state or quality of being sensible: actual feeling: capacity of feeling: susceptibility: acuteness of feeling: delicacy: mental receptivity.āadj. Senā²sible, capable of being perceived by the senses or by the mind: capable of being affected: easily affected: delicate: intelligent, marked by sense, judicious: cognisant: aware: appreciable: sensitive: amenable to.ān. Senā²sibleness.āadv. Senā²sibly.āadjs SensifÄā²cient, producing sensation; Sensifā²erous, Sensifā²ic, SensificÄā²tory; Sensigā²enous, giving rise to sensation; Senā²sile, capable of affecting the senses.āns Senā²sion, the becoming aware of being affected from without in sensation; Senā²sism, sensualism in philosophy; Senā²sist, a sensationalist.ān. SensitisÄā²tion.āv.t. Senā²sitise, to render sensitive, to render capable of being acted on by actinic rays of light.ān. Senā²sitiser.āadj. Senā²sitive, having sense or feeling: susceptible to sensations: easily affected: pertaining to, or depending on, sensation.āadv. Senā²sitively.āns Senā²sitiveness, Senā²sitivity, the state of being sensitive: keen sensibility: the state of being delicately adjusted, as a balance: (chem.) the state of being readily affected by the action of appropriate agents; Sensitomā²eter, an apparatus for testing the degrees of sensitiveness of photographic films.āadjs SensÅā²rial, pertaining to the sensorium, sensory; Sensoridigestā²ive, partaking of digestive functions and those of touch, as the tongue of a vertebrate animal.āns SensÅā²rium, Senā²sory, the organ which receives the impressions made on the senses: the nervous centre to which impressions must be conveyed before they are received: the whole sensory apparatus of the body, the nervous system, &c.āadj. Senā²sual, pertaining to, affecting, or derived from the senses, as distinct from the mind: not intellectual or spiritual: given to the pleasures of sense: voluptuous: lewd: carnal: worldly.ān. SensualisÄā²tion.āv.t. Senā²sualise, to make sensual: to debase by carnal gratification.āns Senā²sualism, sensual indulgence: the doctrine that all our knowledge is derived originally from sensation: the regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest end; Senā²sualist, one given to sensualism or sensual indulgence: a debauchee: a believer in the doctrine of sensualism.āadj. Sensualistā²ic, sensual: teaching the doctrines of sensualism.ān. Sensualā²ity, indulgence in sensual pleasures: lewdness.āadv. Senā²sually, in a sensual manner.āns Senā²sualness; Senā²suism; Senā²suist.āadj. Senā²suous, pertaining to sense: connected with sensible objects: easily affected by the medium of the senses.āadv. Senā²suously.ān. Senā²suousness.āSensitive flames, flames easily affected by sounds; Sensitive plant, one of certain species of Mimosaāfrom the peculiar phenomena of irritability which their leaves exhibit when touched or shaken; Sensuous cognition, cognition through the senses.āA sensitive person, one sensitive to mesmeric influence; The senses, or Five senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. [Fr.,āL. sensusāsentÄ«re, to feel.]
Wikipedia 
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When a word has several meanings, one can refer to it as being used "in the sense of..." some context or other. In Simple English for instance we avoid using words in unusual senses.
A valid seventh sense is the immune system's ability to detect invading virus and bacteria.
Memory is sometimes listed as an eighth sense, although it seems not to detect things from outside, but reconstruct them from inside the brain, and sometimes from muscle memory.
The obsolete term "sixth sense" is used to mean empathy or telepathy, and was in use before kinesthetics was understood.
When someone does not like the ideology or logic used in an argument, they often say it makes no sense or is nonsense.
A variation of this is to say that something does not make "economic sense". Usually these words signal a political dispute or some failure to define terms correctly.
The term "common sense" is used to mean either wisdom or very stupid ideas shared by many "common" people. It has a long history of being used in politics, to mean almost anything.
