sense

Definitions of sense in various dictionaries:

noun - a general conscious awareness

noun - the meaning of a word or expression

noun - the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

noun - sound practical judgment

noun - a natural appreciation or ability

verb - perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles

verb - detect some circumstance or entity automatically

verb - become aware of not through the senses but instinctively

verb - comprehend

Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.

A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation: a sense of fatigue and hunger.

Intuitive or acquired perception or ability to estimate: a sense of diplomatic timing.

A capacity to appreciate or understand: a keen sense of humor.

A vague feeling or presentiment: a sense of impending doom.

Recognition or perception either through the senses or through the intellect; consciousness: has no sense of shame.

Something sound or reasonable: There’s no sense in waiting three hours.

A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification: The sense of the novel is the inevitability of human tragedy.

See Synonyms at meaning.

Judgment; consensus: sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.

Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group: I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.

To become aware of; perceive.

To grasp; understand.

To detect automatically: sense radioactivity.

verb - to perceive by the senses (any of certain agencies through which an individual receives impressions of the external world)

SENSE - A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are ov...