sense in English

noun

1

a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

the bear has a keen sense of smell that enables it to hunt at dusk

synonyms: sensory faculty, feeling, sensation, perception, sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell

2

a feeling that something is the case.

she had the sense of being a political outsider

synonyms: feeling, awareness, sensation, consciousness, recognition

3

a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.

he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings

synonyms: wisdom, common sense, sagacity, discernment, perception, wit, intelligence, cleverness, shrewdness, judgment, reason, logic, brain(s), gumption, horse sense, savvy, (street) smarts

4

a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.

it is not clear which sense of the word “characters” is intended in this passage

synonyms: meaning, definition, import, signification, significance, purport, implication, nuance, drift, gist, thrust, tenor, message

5

a property, e.g., direction of motion, distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc., that differ only in that each is the reverse of the other.

verb

1

perceive by a sense or senses.

with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days

synonyms: discern, feel, observe, notice, recognize, pick up (on), be aware of, distinguish, make out, identify, comprehend, apprehend, see, appreciate, realize, suspect, have a funny feeling about, have a hunch about, divine, intuit, catch on to

noun

sensory faculty, feeling, sensation, perception, sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell
feeling, awareness, sensation, consciousness, recognition
appreciation, awareness, understanding, comprehension, discernment, nose
wisdom, common sense, sagacity, discernment, perception, wit, intelligence, cleverness, shrewdness, judgment, reason, logic, brain(s), gumption, horse sense, savvy, (street) smarts
purpose, point, reason, object, motive, use, value, advantage, benefit
meaning, definition, import, signification, significance, purport, implication, nuance, drift, gist, thrust, tenor, message
signified
sentiency, sentience, sensation
good sense, common sense, horse sense, mother wit, gumption

verb

discern, smell, feel
discern, feel, observe, notice, recognize, pick up (on), be aware of, distinguish, make out, identify, comprehend, apprehend, see, appreciate, realize, suspect, have a funny feeling about, have a hunch about, divine, intuit, catch on to
smell, smell out
feel

Use "sense" in a sentence

1. One sense triggers another sense.

2. 6th sense, 6th sense, pfft!

3. Gratefulness boosts your sense of belonging; your sense of belonging in turn boosts your Common Sense.

4. So it makes sense because it doesn't make sense.

5. Bumming in British English present participle of verb bum 2 (sense 6), bum 2 (sense 7), bum 2 (sense 8), bum 2 (sense 9)

6. Makes sense.

7. non sense

8. Copped in British English past participle of verb, past tense of verb see cop 1 (sense 4), cop 1 (sense 5), cop 1 (sense 6), cop 1 (sense 7), cop 1 (sense 8)

9. Old English (in sense Animus (sense 4)): from Latin, ‘spirit, mind’.

10. Ray —electric sense

11. A spider-sense.

12. Bugged definition: → see bug 1 (sense 9 ) , bug 1 (sense 10 ) , bug 1 (sense 11 ) Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

13. Shark —electric sense

14. The Electric Sense

15. Late 16th century (in Beluga (sense 2)): from Russian belukha (Beluga (sense 1)), Beluga (Beluga (sense 2)), both from belyĭ ‘white’.

16. You people have no sense of humor, no sense of joy, no sense of joie de vivre. You are so young.

17. Nominal sense attested since 1746; adjectival sense attested since 1791: pre- +‎ Antepenultimate.

18. • Cogitable (adjective) Sense 1

19. • Credulously (adverb) Sense 1

20. • Chelicerate (adjective) Sense 1

21. • Crabwise (adjective) Sense 1

22. • Bacteriolysis (noun) Sense 1

23. • Bistered (adjective) Sense 1

24. • Bigamous (adjective) Sense 1

25. • Addible (adjective) Sense 1

26. • Ailurophobia (noun) Sense 1

27. • Apoplectoid (adjective) Sense 1

28. • Amaurotic (adjective) Sense 1

29. • Amitotic (adjective) Sense 1

30. • Amalgamative (adjective) Sense 1

31. • Addressed (adjective) Sense 1

32. • Adaxial (adjective) Sense 1

33. • Analogously (adverb) Sense 1

34. • Afeared (adjective) Sense 1

35. • Arithmetician (noun) Sense 1

36. Clyde's got a sense.

37. Turtle —possibly magnetic sense

38. Sense Stress and Modulation

39. • Comradely (adjective) Sense 1

40. • Cretinous (adjective) Sense 1

41. • Contritely (adverb) Sense 1

42. • Communally (adverb) Sense 1

43. • Brumous (adjective) Sense 1

44. • Chromolithography (noun) Sense 1

45. • Cavalierly (adverb) Sense 1

46. • Anaclitic (adjective) Sense 1

47. • Auriferous (adjective) Sense 1

48. • Adulatory (adjective) Sense 1

49. • Agnatic (adjective) Sense 1

50. • Anabatic (adjective) Sense 1