danger sense
Internal warning system
Danger sense is an intuitive ability to detect threats before they become apparent—a sixth sense for peril.
The term comes from superhero fiction, where characters like Spider-Man possess a preternatural warning system.
In everyday use, it describes heightened alertness or gut feelings about unsafe situations: My danger sense was tingling the moment I walked into that bar.
Sometimes used humorously for minor social threats: Her danger sense kicked in when her ex showed up at the party.
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- gut instinctImmediate unreasoned knowing
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- warningAlert about danger
- red flagIndicator of danger
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- street smartsstreet smarts, savvy, resourceful, resourcefulness, cunning
- psionicstelepathy, telekinesis, mind control, mind reading, ESP
- Spider-Man powerswall climbing
- tactical awarenessspatial awareness, observation, focus, perception, foresight
- threat awarenessthreat detection, hazard awareness, vigilance, alertness, warning signs
- supersensessuper hearing, x-ray vision, night vision, infrared vision, thermal vision
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Lack of awareness
cluelessness · unawareness · naivety · complacency · blissful ignorance
danger senserecklessness
Careless disregard for danger
death wish · foolhardiness · carelessness · rashness · throwing caution to the wind
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