sense
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: senses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: senses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sensed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sence
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
gloss: Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Sound practical or moral judgment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The meaning, reason, or value of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You don’t make any sense.
I think ’twas in another sense.
gloss: The meaning, reason, or value of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the various senses of the word “car” (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)
gloss: The meaning, reason, or value of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A natural appreciation or ability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A keen musical sense
gloss: The way that a referent is presented.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
pos: verb
gloss: To instinctively be aware.
pos: verb
examples: She immediately sensed her disdain.
gloss: To comprehend.
pos: verb
Synonyms: non-nonsense
sense
Related words: extrasensory
sensation
sensible
sensical
sensitive
sensor
sensorium
sensual
sensuous
audition
equilibrioception
gustation
hearing
nociception
olfaction
proprioception
sight
smell
tactition
taste
thermoception
touch
vision
perception
cognition
nervous system
neuroscience
perceptibility
perceptible
sensory
perceive
produce sensation
perceptibly
Derived words: abound in one's own sense
aftersense
air sense
ambisense
antisense
come to one's senses
common sense
countersense
court sense
cowsense
dress sense
enough sense to pound sand into a rathole
game sense
good sense
horse sense
in a sense
in every sense of the word
in the Biblical sense
in the biblical sense
knock some sense into
know someone in the Biblical sense
know someone in the biblical sense
lack-sense
make it make sense
make sense
moral sense
more dollars than sense
more money than sense
multisense
my spider sense is tingling
negative sense
nonsense
non-sense
no sense no feeling
positive sense
present sense impression
sense amplifier
sense body
sense capsule
sense datum
senseful
senseless
sensely
sensemaking
sense of craft
sense of direction
sense of place
sense of time
sense organ
sense strand
sensigenous
sensism
sensist
sensive
sensory
Sensurround
snail-sense feminism
Spider sense
spider sense
Spider-sense
spider-sense
spidey sense
Spidey-sense
spidey-sense
Spidey sense
strict-sense stationary
subsense
supersense
talk sense
where there's no sense there's no feeling
word sense
foresense
missense
undersense
unsense
mechanosense
oversense
sensable
senser
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مَعْنًى
roman: maʕnan
lang: Arabic
word: معنى
roman: maʕna
lang: Armenian
word: իմաստ
roman: imast
lang: Asturian
word: sentíu
lang: Belarusian
word: значэ́нне
roman: značénnje
lang: Belarusian
word: сэнс
roman: sens
lang: Belarusian
word: змысл
roman: zmysl
lang: Bulgarian
word: значе́ние
roman: značénie
lang: Bulgarian
word: сми́съл
roman: smísǎl
lang: Catalan
word: seny
lang: Catalan
word: sentit
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 意義 /意义
roman: yìyì
lang: Czech
word: smysl
lang: Czech
word: význam
lang: Dutch
word: zin
lang: Finnish
word: järki
lang: Finnish
word: merkitys
lang: French
word: sens
lang: Galician
word: sentido
lang: German
word: Sinn
lang: Greek
word: έννοια
roman: énnoia
lang: Hungarian
word: értelem
lang: Icelandic
word: merking
lang: Ido
word: senco
lang: Irish
word: ciall
lang: Old Irish
word: cíall
lang: Old Irish
word: síans
lang: Italian
word: senso
lang: Italian
word: significato
lang: Japanese
word: 意味
roman: imi
lang: Khmer
word: ន័យ
roman: nɨy
lang: Khmer
word: សំនួន
roman: sɑmnuən
lang: Korean
word: 뜻
roman: tteut
lang: Korean
word: 의미
roman: uimi
lang: Latgalian
word: jāga
lang: Latgalian
word: zeimeiba
lang: Latvian
word: jēga
lang: Lithuanian
word: prasmė
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Bedeitung
lang: Macedonian
word: смисла
roman: smisla
lang: Malay
word: makna
lang: Malay
word: maksud
lang: Malay
word: erti
lang: Manx
word: keeall
lang: Mongolian
word: утга
roman: utga
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠤᠳᠬ ᠠ
roman: udk a
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: meining
lang: Old English
word: andġiet
lang: Persian
word: چم
roman: čem
lang: Polish
word: sens
lang: Portuguese
word: sentido
lang: Romanian
word: sens
lang: Romansh
word: senn
lang: Romansh
word: sen
lang: Russian
word: смысл
roman: smysl
lang: Russian
word: значе́ние
roman: značénije
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: seagh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: brìgh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ciallachadh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сми̑сао
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: smȋsao
lang: Slovak
word: zmysel
lang: Slovak
word: význam
lang: Slovene
word: smisel
lang: Spanish
word: sentido
lang: Swedish
word: mening
lang: Swedish
word: bemärkelse
lang: Turkish
word: mana
lang: Turkish
word: anlam
lang: Ukrainian
word: сенс
roman: sens
lang: Ukrainian
word: зна́чення
roman: znáčennja
lang: Ukrainian
word: смисл
roman: smysl
lang: Venetan
word: sènso
lang: Venetan
word: senso
lang: Vietnamese
word: nghĩa
lang: Vietnamese
word: ý nghĩa
lang: Welsh
word: ystyr