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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- sence (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sense, borrowed from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”); partly from Latin sensus (“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”). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: sĕns, IPA(key): /sɛn(t)s/
Audio (GA) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /sɪn(t)s/
- Rhymes: -ɛns
- Homophones: cents, scents, since (pin-pen merger)
Noun[edit]
sense (countable and uncountable, plural senses)
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- a sense of security
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- high disdain from sense of injured merit
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
- some People so Harden'd in Wickedness, as to have No Sense at all of the most Friendly Offices, or the Highest Benefits.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- You don’t make any sense.
- Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
- word sense disambiguation
- the various senses of the word "car" (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nehemiah 8:8:
- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- I think 'twas in another sense.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- A keen musical sense
- (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- (semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
- The word set has various senses.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
Synonyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:sense
Derived terms[edit]
- abound in one's own sense
- abound in one's own sense
- aftersense
- air sense
- come to one's senses
- common sense
- court sense
- dress sense
- enough sense to pound sand into a rathole
- good sense
- horse sense
- in a sense
- in the biblical sense
- knock some sense into
- know someone in the biblical sense
- make it make sense
- make sense
- more dollars than sense
- my spider sense is tingling
- negative sense
- non-sense
- nonsense
- no sense no feeling
- positive sense
- present sense impression
- see sense
- sense amplifier
- sense body
- sense capsule
- sense of craft
- sense of direction
- sense of place
- sense organ
- sense strand
- Spider-sense
- spider-sense
- spider sense
- Spider sense
- Spidey sense
- spidey sense
- Spidey-sense
- spidey-sense
- strict-sense stationary
- talk sense
- where there's no sense there's no feeling
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Afrikaans: sense
Translations[edit]
manner by which living beings perceive the physical world
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conscious awareness
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sound judgement
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meaning or reason
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natural ability
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semantics term
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math: direction of a vector
math: direction of rotation
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Translations to be checked
See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
sense (third-person singular simple present senses, present participle sensing, simple past and past participle sensed)
- To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
- To instinctively be aware.
- She immediately sensed her disdain.
- To comprehend.
Translations[edit]
use biological senses
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to instinctively be aware
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to comprehend
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Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
sense (uncountable)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
sense
Catalan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Latin sine, possibly conflated with absentia, or more likely from sens, itself from Old Catalan sen (with an adverbial -s-), from Latin sine. Compare French sans, Occitan sens, Italian senza.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈsən.sə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.sə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈsen.se/
Audio (file)
Preposition[edit]
sense
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “sense” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sense”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “sense” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sense” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chuukese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Japanese 先生 (sensei).
Noun[edit]
sense
Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsen.se/, [ˈs̠ẽːs̠ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsen.se/, [ˈsɛnse]
Participle[edit]
sēnse
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French sens, from Latin sensus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sense (plural senses)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “sens(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Occitan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a variant of Latin sine (“without”), influenced by absēns (“absent, remote”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Preposition[edit]
sense
References[edit]
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 556.
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
sense
- inflection of sensar:
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