sense

Definition of sense

14 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.

“Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.”
“What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.

“Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.”
“What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.”
(countable, uncountable)Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

“a sense of security”
“this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover”
“high disdain from sense of injured merit”
“The days have vanish’d, tone and tint, ⁠And yet perhaps the hoarding sense ⁠Gives out at times (he knows not whence) A little flash, a mystic hint; […]”
“Where a college administration does not come forward and say that gay people have a right to be here, there is a sense among students that it is acceptable to harass and intimidate lesbian and gay members of that community.”
(countable, uncountable)Sound practical or moral judgment.

“It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.”
“some People so Harden'd in Wickedness, as to have No Sense at all of the most Friendly Offices, or the Highest Benefits.”
(countable, uncountable)The meaning, reason, or value of something.

“You don’t make any sense.”
“I think ’twas in another sense.”
(countable, uncountable)The meaning, reason, or value of something.

“the various senses of the word “car” (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)”
(countable, uncountable)The meaning, reason, or value of something.
(countable, uncountable)A natural appreciation or ability.

“A keen musical sense”
(countable, uncountable)The way that a referent is presented.
(countable, uncountable)One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
(countable, uncountable)One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
(countable, uncountable)referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

verb

To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
To instinctively be aware.

“She immediately sensed her disdain.”
To comprehend.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentjō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, perception, direction”); partly from Latin sēnsus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn ("reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"; whence also Dutch zin, German Sinn, Swedish sinne, Norwegian sinn). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).

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