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See also:Senseandsensé

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FromMiddle Englishsense, fromOld Frenchsens,sen,san(“sense, perception, direction”); partly fromLatinsēnsus(“sensation, feeling, meaning”), fromsentiō(“feel, perceive”); partly ofGermanic origin (whence alsoOccitansen,Italiansenno), fromVulgar Latin*sennus(“sense, reason, way”), fromFrankish*sinn("reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"; whence alsoDutchzin,GermanSinn,Swedishsinne,Norwegiansinn). Both Latin and Germanic fromProto-Indo-European*sent-(“to feel”).

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sense (countable anduncountable,pluralsenses)

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  2. Any of the manners by which living beingsperceive the physical world: for humanssight,smell,hearing,touch,taste.
  4. Perception through the intellect;apprehension;awareness.
    asense of security
    • a.1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e.,Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville;Matthew Gwinne;John Florio], editors,The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] forWilliam Ponsonbie, published1590,→OCLC:
      this Basilius, having the quicksense of a lover
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book I”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      high disdain fromsense of injured merit
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson],In Memoriam, London:Edward Moxon, […],→OCLC, Canto XLIII,page66:
      The days have vanish’d, tone and tint,
      ⁠And yet perhaps the hoardingsense
      ⁠Gives out at times (he knows not whence)
      A little flash, a mystic hint;[…]
    • 1990 December 16, Laura Briggs, quoting Robert Weinerman, “Gay Students Fight 'Little War' At Mass. School”, inGay Community News, volume18, number22, page15:
      Where a college administration does not come forward and say that gay people have a right to be here, there is asense among students that it is acceptable to harass and intimidate lesbian and gay members of that community.
  6. Sound practical or moraljudgment.
    It’s commonsense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
  8. Themeaning,reason, orvalue of something.
    You don’t make anysense.
    2. Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
      Hyponyms:subsense,subsubsense
      wordsense disambiguation
      the varioussenses of the word “car” (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)
    4. (semantics, lexicography) A single conventional use of a word; one of theentries ordefinitions for a word in a dictionary.
  10. A naturalappreciation orability.
    A keen musicalsense
  12. (pragmatics) The way that areferent is presented.
  14. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See alsopolarity.
  16. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation,clockwise versusanti-clockwise.
  18. (biochemistry) referring to the strand of anucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
  20. Aword sense, one of the meanings of a word.

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manner by which living beings perceive the physical world
conscious awareness
sound judgement
meaning or reason
natural ability
pragmatics term
semantics term
math: direction of a vector
math: direction of rotation
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Verb

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sense (third-person singular simple presentsenses,present participlesensing,simple past and past participlesensed)

  1. To usebiological senses: to eithersee,hear,smell,taste, orfeel.
  2. Toinstinctively beaware.
    She immediatelysensed her disdain.
  3. Tocomprehend.

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use biological senses
to instinctively be aware
to comprehend
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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromEnglishsense.

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sense (uncountable)

  1. sense,good sense

Etymology 2

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Noun

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sense

  1. plural ofsens

Catalan

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Ultimately fromLatinsine, possibly conflated withabsentia, or more likely fromsens, itself fromOld Catalansen (with an adverbial -s-), from Latinsine. CompareFrenchsans,Occitansens,Italiansenza.

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sense

  1. without
    Antonym:amb

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Chuukese

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromJapanese先生(sensei).

Noun

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sense

  1. teacher

Dutch

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Noun

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sense

  1. Only used insense maken

Latin

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sēnse

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofsēnsus

Middle English

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchsens, fromLatinsensus.

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sense (pluralsenses)

  1. meaning,signification;interpretation

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Occitan

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Etymology

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From a variant ofLatinsine(“without”), influenced byabsēns(“absent, remote”).

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sense

  1. without

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Verb

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sense

  1. inflection ofsensar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative
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