Sense

[sens] or [sɛns]

Definition

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) a general conscious awareness; 'a sense of security'; 'a sense of happiness'; 'a sense of danger'; 'a sense of self'.

(noun.) a natural appreciation or ability; 'a keen musical sense'; 'a good sense of timing'.

(noun.) 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'.

(verb.) comprehend; 'I sensed the real meaning of his letter'.

(verb.) detect some circumstance or entity automatically; 'This robot can sense the presence of people in the room'; 'particle detectors sense ionization'.

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Definition

(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.

(v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.

(v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.

(v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.

(v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.

(v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.

(v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.

(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.

(v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Faculty of perception.[2]. Feeling, sensibility, sensation.[3]. Intellect, mind, understanding, reason, brains, thinking principle, intellectual powers or faculties.[4]. Discernment, perception, sagacity, wisdom, tact, gumption, ballast, common sense.[5]. Opinion, judgment, notion, idea, conception, apprehension, view.[6]. Signification, meaning, import, purport, interpretation.[7]. Consciousness, persuasion, conviction.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Perception, sensation, feeling, apprehension, recognition, understanding,discernment, appreciation, sentiment, view, opinion, judgment, reason,consciousness, notion, meaning, import, signification, purport, significance,soundness, sagacity, wisdom

ANT:Non-perception, insensibility, misapprehension, misunderstanding, stolidity,nonappreciation, misconception, unsoundness, folly, nonsense,misinterpretation

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Definition

n. a faculty by which objects are perceived: perception: discernment: understanding: power or soundness of judgment: reason: opinion: conviction: import: immediate consciousness.—ns. Sense′-bod′y a sense-organ in acalephs supposed to have a visual or an auditory function; Sense′-cap′sule a receptive chamber for sensory perception connected with the ear eye and nose; Sense′-cen′tre a centre of sensation.—adj. Sensed chosen as to sense or meaning.—ns. Sense′-el′ement an external sensation as an element of perception; Sense′-fil′ament a filament having the function of an organ of sense.—adjs. Sense′ful (Spens.) full of sense or meaning reasonable judicious perceptive; Sense′less without sense: incapable of feeling: wanting sympathy: foolish: unreasonable.—adv. Sense′lessly.—ns. Sense′lessness; Sense′-or′gan any organ of sense as the eye ear or nose; Sense′-percep′tion perception by means of the senses; Sense′-rhythm Hebrew parallelism; Sense′-skel′eton the framework of a sense-organ; Sensibil′ity state or quality of being sensible: actual feeling: capacity of feeling: susceptibility: acuteness of feeling: delicacy: mental receptivity.—adj. Sen′sible 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.—n. Sen′sibleness.—adv. Sen′sibly.—adjs Sensifā′cient producing sensation; Sensif′erous Sensif′ic Sensificā′tory; Sensig′enous giving rise to sensation; Sen′sile capable of affecting the senses.—ns Sen′sion the becoming aware of being affected from without in sensation; Sen′sism sensualism in philosophy; Sen′sist a sensationalist.—n. Sensitisā′tion.—v.t. Sen′sitise to render sensitive to render capable of being acted on by actinic rays of light.—n. Sen′sitiser.—adj. Sen′sitive having sense or feeling: susceptible to sensations: easily affected: pertaining to or depending on sensation.—adv. Sen′sitively.—ns Sen′sitiveness Sen′sitivity 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; Sensitom′eter an apparatus for testing the degrees of sensitiveness of photographic films.—adjs Sensō′rial pertaining to the sensorium sensory; Sensoridigest′ive partaking of digestive functions and those of touch as the tongue of a vertebrate animal.—ns Sensō′rium Sen′sory 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.—adj. Sen′sual 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.—n. Sensualisā′tion.—v.t. Sen′sualise to make sensual: to debase by carnal gratification.—ns Sen′sualism 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; Sen′sualist one given to sensualism or sensual indulgence: a debauchee: a believer in the doctrine of sensualism.—adj. Sensualist′ic sensual: teaching the doctrines of sensualism.—n. Sensual′ity indulgence in sensual pleasures: lewdness.—adv. Sen′sually in a sensual manner.—ns Sen′sualness; Sen′suism; Sen′suist.—adj. Sen′suous pertaining to sense: connected with sensible objects: easily affected by the medium of the senses.—adv. Sen′suously.—n. Sen′suousness.—Sensitive flames flames easily affected by sounds; Sensitive plant one of certain species of Mimosa—from the peculiar phenomena of irritability which their leaves exhibit when touched or shaken; Sensuous cognition cognition through the senses.—A sensitive person one sensitive to mesmeric influence; The senses or Five senses sight hearing smell taste and touch.

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