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sense

Pronunciation: /sɛns/

The English word “sense” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
  2. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
  3. Sound practical or moral judgment.
  4. The meaning, reason, or value of something.
  5. A meaning of a term (word or expression), among its various meanings.
  6. A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.
  7. A natural appreciation or ability.
  8. The way that a referent is presented.
  9. One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
  10. One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
  11. referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

verb

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

Etymology

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,…

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