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sense

/sɛn(t)s/
Meanings
  • Noun

    The ability to perceive or understand something through the senses.

    - "He has a good sense of humor."
    - "She lost her sense of smell after a cold."
  • Noun

    A logical and rational faculty.

    - "He used his common sense to solve the problem."
    - "She didn't have a good sense of direction."
Pronunciation
  1. /sɛn(t)s/



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  2. /sɛns/



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Rhymes
Words rhyming with sense
dense , ensemble , ensence , pence , penceance
Homonyms
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  1. Sense (Irish) : A county in Ireland

  2. Sense (Spanish) : Common sense, good judgment

Homophones
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  1. Cents

  2. Sensei

  3. Sensible

Variants
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sense , senses , sensed , sensing , sense-data , sense-datum , sense organ , sense organs , sense of achievement , sense of direction , sense of humor , sense of obligation , sense of rhythm , sense of self
Forms
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Senses, Sensed, Sensibly, Sensitively

Etymology
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Old French sens 'feeling, perception, understanding', from Latin sentire 'to feel, perceive'.

Trivia
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  1. The human body has approximately 200 different types of sensory receptors.

  2. The sense of smell is the only sense directly connected to the limbic system, which is involved in emotions.

Related Concepts
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  1. Perception: The process of interpreting and organizing sensory information in order to understand and navigate the environment.

  2. Sensory system: The collection of organs and structures that receive and process sensory information from the environment.

Quotes
Quotes by authors and personalities

  1. There is an unnerving "sense" now that technology is driving the culture rather than the reverse. Machines and sites and software are breeding at an exponential clip, and we hapless humans race around trying to adapt.

    - Steven Johnson,{it}Discover{/it},July 2006

  2. The caricature of neurotic nuns who specialized in corporal punishment and guilt crumbles before the countless examples of women religious who made the difference in determining that a child would eat, or be safe, or have any "sense" of dignity at all.

    - Luke Timothy Johnson,{it}Commonweal{/it},22 Sept. 2006

  3. Because Updike shrinks from giving any real credence to the ideology that drives his plot (in both "senses" of that word), the book becomes a temporarily enthralling, but ultimately empty shaggy dog story.

    - Jonathan Raban,{it}New York Review of Books{/it},13 July 2006

  4. Less distinguished people experience a similar tangling of the "senses", some reporting that they can taste the words they speak or see the colors of certain words or numbers. This confounding of perception—called synesthesia—was thought to affect at most about 4 percent of the population, but University College London psychologist Jamie Ward has uncovered the best evidence yet that we may all have a bit of synesthesia.

    - Kathryn Garfield,{it}Discover{/it},December 2006
Culture
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In literature, the sense of touch is often used metaphorically to describe emotional experiences. In art, the sense of sight is the primary focus, while in music, the sense of hearing is the most important.

How to Memorize "sense"

  1. visualize

    - Imagine a person touching different objects to feel their texture.
    - Visualize a person tasting different foods to understand their flavors.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word 'sense' with the word 'understanding'.
    - Associate the word 'sense' with the word 'perceive'.

  3. mnemonics

    - Use the acronym 'SIGHT' to remember the five senses: Sight, Hearing, Taste, Touch, Smell.

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