five senses
Sight, sound, etc.
The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch—the traditional faculties by which humans perceive the world.
The phrase often appears in contexts emphasizing completeness of experience: The restaurant engages all five senses.
Scientists recognize additional senses like balance and proprioception, but the classical five remain the cultural standard.
- smellOlfactory perception
- sightVisual perception faculty
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- tasteFlavor perception ability
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
synesthesia · vision · haptic · eyes · equilibrioception · perception · nose · awareness · auditory · ears · tongue · skin · listen · sweet · soft · sound · bitter · feel
- conventional wisdomearly bird, apple a day, opposites attract, nice guys finish last, patience
- Number Phrasesone and only, two cents, three strikes, four corners, six feet under
- preschool science educationnature walks, plant growth, water play, magnets, color mixing
- fivesfiver, nickel, V, pentad, quintet
- meditationbreathing meditation, breath, breath meditation, mantra, breathing
- numbered groupspair, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet
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Extrasensory perception ability
ESP · extrasensory perception · intuition · psychic ability · clairvoyance
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Basis or justification
intellect · pure reason · abstract thought · logic · rational mind
five sensesdivine revelation
Deity communicates to humanity
enlightenment · higher consciousness · cosmic awareness · out-of-body experience · nirvana
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