Etymology : Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French sens sensation, feeling, mechanism of perception, meaning, from Latin sensus, from sentire to perceive, feel; perhaps akin to Old High German sinnan to go, strive, Old English sith journey; more a
Pronunciation : 'sen(t)s
Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. any of the five faculties of perception (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste); feeling, perception, sensation; recognition, awareness; impression; intelligence; something that is reasonable; significance, meaning; purpose, point; merit, value. feel, perceive through the senses; apprehend, understand. an abbreviation of the word "sinsemellia ", which is a form of marijuana that has no seeds, because it is isolated from male pollen during te blooming process. Instead of making seeds, the marijuana plant makes more THC, hence this "sense " is more potent, and generally better than standard ganja. sense\sense\ , n. [l. sensus, from sentire, sensum, to perceive, to feel, from the same root as e. send; cf. ohg. sin sense, mind, sinnan to go, to journey, g. sinnen to meditate, to think: cf. f. sens. for the change of meaning cf. see, v. t. see:
send, and cf. assent, consent, scent, v. t., sentence, sentient.].
2. (physiol.) 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. let fancy still my sense in lethe steep. what surmounts the reach of human sense i shall delineate. the traitor sense recalls the soaring soul from rest.
3. perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling. in a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.
4. perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation. this basilius, having the quick sense of a lover. sidney. high disdain from sense of injured merit.
5. sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning. "he speaks sense." he raves; his words are loose as heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense.
6. that which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion. i speak my private but impartial sense with freedom. the municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens.
7. meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark. so they read in the book in the law of god distinctly, and gave the sense. viii.
8. i think 't was in another sense.
9. moral perception or appreciation. some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices. --l' estrange.
10. (geom.) 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.
11. A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
12. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
13. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
14. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
15. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
16. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
17. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
18. Moral perception or appreciation.
19. 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.
20. To perceive by the senses; to recognize. 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" a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self" a natural appreciation or ability; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing" 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" comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter" become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility" detect some circumstance or entity automatically; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization".
21. 1. Your senses are the physical abilities of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste. She stared at him again, unable to believe the evidence of her senses. a keen sense of smell. see also:
sixth sense.
22. If you sense something, you become aware of it or you realize it, although it is not very obvious. She probably sensed that I wasn't telling her the whole story He looks about him, sensing danger Prost had sensed what might happen.
23. If you have a sense that something is the case, you think that it is the case, although you may not have firm, clear evidence for this belief. Suddenly you got this sense that people were drawing themselves away from each other There is no sense of urgency on either side. see also:
sense of occasion.
24. If you have a sense of guilt or relief, for example, you feel guilty or relieved. When your child is struggling for life, you feel this overwhelming sense of guilt = feeling.
25. If you have a sense of something such as duty or justice, you are aware of it and believe it is important. We must keep a sense of proportion about all this She needs to regain a sense of her own worth.
26. Someone who has a sense of timing or style has a natural ability with regard to timing or style. You can also say that someone has a bad sense of timing or style. He has an impeccable sense of timing Her dress sense is appalling. see also:
sense of humour.
27. Sense is the ability to make good judgments and to behave sensibly. when he was younger and had a bit more sense When that doesn't work they sometimes have the sense to seek help see also:
common sense.
28. If you say that there is no sense or little sense in doing something, you mean that it is not a sensible thing to do because nothing useful would be gained by doing it. There's no sense in pretending this doesn't happen = point.
29. A sense of a word or expression is one of its possible meanings. a noun which has two senses Then she remembered that they had no mind in any real sense of that word. = meaning.
30. Sense is used in several expressions to indicate how true your statement is. For example, if you say that something is true in a sense, you mean that it is partly true, or true in one way. If you say that something is true in a general sense, you mean that it is true in a general way. In a sense, both were right In one sense, the fact that few new commercial buildings can be financed does not matter He's not the leader in a political sense Though his background was modest, it was in no sense deprived.
31. If something makes sense, you can understand it. He was sitting there saying, `Yes, the figures make sense.'.
32. When you make sense of something, you succeed in understanding it. This is to help her to come to terms with her early upbringing and make sense of past experiences.
33. If a course of action makes sense, it seems sensible. It makes sense to look after yourself The project should be re-appraised to see:
whether it made sound economic sense.
34. If you say that someone has come to their senses or has been brought to their senses, you mean that they have stopped being foolish and are being sensible again. Eventually the world will come to its senses and get rid of them.
35. If you say that someone seems to have taken leave of their senses, you mean that they have done or said something very foolish. They looked at me as if I had taken leave of my senses.
36. If you say that someone talks sense, you mean that what they say is sensible.
37. If you have a sense that something is true or get a sense that something is true, you think that it is true. Do you have the sense that you are loved by the public?.
38. to see:
sense: see see. or sensory reception or sense perception Mechanism by which information is received about one's external or internal environment. Stimuli received by nerves, in some cases through specialized organs with receptor cells sensitive to one type of stimulus, are converted into impulses that travel to specialized areas of the brain, where they are analyzed. In addition to the "five senses" sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch humans have senses of motion (kinesthetic sense), heat, cold, pressure, pain, and balance. Temperature, pressure, and pain are cutaneous (skin) senses; different points on the skin are particularly sensitive to each. See also chemoreception, ear, eye, inner ear, mechanoreception, nose, photoreception, proprioception, taste, thermoreception, tongue.
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