Definition of sense
What does the word sense mean?
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part of speech: noun, transitive verb
Any of the special bodily faculties by which sensation is roused (the five ss., sight, hearing, smell, taste, & touch; sixth or muscular s., producing sensation of muscular effort; has quick, keen, ss., a dull s. of smell), (pl.) person\'s sanity or ordinary state of mind regarded as secured by possession of these (have you taken leave of, are you out of, your ss.?, are you mad?; he will soon come, we must bring him, to his ss., out of mad folly; frightened out of his ss., into loss of faculties; in one\'s ss., sane); ability to perceive or feel or to be conscious of the presence or properties of things, sensitiveness of all or any of the ss., (s.-perception; errors of s., mistakes in perception; the pleasures of s., those depending on sensation; has a plant s.?); consciousness of (a or the s. of pleasure, pain, gratification, having done well, one\'s own importance, shame, responsibility; labouring under a s. of wrong, feeling wronged); quick or accurate appreciation of, instinct regarding or insight into specified matter or habit of squaring conduct to such instinct, (s. of locality, distance, the ridiculous, humour, duty, beauty, gratitude; a keen s. of honour; the religious, moral, aesthetic, s.); practical wisdom, judgment, common sense, conformity to these, (sound, good, common, s.; a man of s., sagacious; had not the s. to do; has plenty of s.; what is the s. of talking like that?; has more s. than to do; now you are talking s.); meaning, way in which word &c. is to be understood, intelligibility or coherence or possession of a meaning, (in what exact s. we shall rise again is doubtful; the s. of the word is clear; does not make s., is unintelligible; in the strict, limited, literal, figurative, moral, metaphorical, legal, PICKWICKIAN, proper, full, s.; in a vague, in every, s.; make s. out of nonsense); prevailing sentiment among a number of people (take the s. of the meeting, ascertain this by putting question &c.); s.-body, -capsule, -cavity, -cell, -centre, -organ, parts of animals concerned in producing sensation, hence senseless a. (esp. = foolish; knock s., stun), senselessly adv., senselessness n. (Vb) perceive by s. [French]
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part of speech: noun
in a s., provided the statement is taken in a particular way, under limitations, (what you say is true in a s.).
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