sense
Bodily awareness faculty
Sense covers perception, meaning, and judgment.
The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
A sense of something is an awareness or feeling: a sense of dread, a sense of accomplishment.
Sense also means practical wisdom: She had the sense to leave early.
To make sense is to be understandable or logical.
The sense of a word is its meaning.
To sense something is to perceive or detect it: I sensed something was wrong.
In the plural, senses refers to sanity or rational faculties: Have you lost your senses?
Ability to see
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
- smellOlfactory perception
- tasteFlavor perception ability
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
sight · olfactory · auditory · gustatory · tactile · eyesight · acuity · sharpness
Unproven inner sense
- gutDigestive tract, or instinct
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- feelingSensed inner state
inkling · foreboding · impression · suspicion · innate · subconscious · presentiment · divination
State of sentient awareness
- alertnessActive mental awareness
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- cognizanceState of knowing something
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
realization · understanding · perception · attentiveness · vigilance · comprehension · familiarity · knowledge
Quality of mattering
- definitionStatement of meaning
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- connotationImplied sense, not dictionary
- denotationWord's explicit dictionary meaning
semantics · import · gist · essence · purport · intention · implication · substance
Basis or justification
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- wisdomGood judgment from experience
- practicalityQuality of being useful
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
discernment · understanding · intelligence · rationality · levelheadedness · shrewdness · acumen · sagacity
vision
Ability to see
touch · sight · olfactory · auditory · gustatory · tactile · eyesight · acuity · sharpness · keenness
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- gutDigestive tract, or instinct
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
feeling · inkling · foreboding · impression · suspicion · innate · subconscious · presentiment · divination · clairvoyance
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
- alertnessActive mental awareness
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- cognizanceState of knowing something
recognition · realization · understanding · perception · attentiveness · vigilance · comprehension · familiarity · knowledge · acquaintance
significance
Quality of mattering
- definitionStatement of meaning
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- connotationImplied sense, not dictionary
denotation · semantics · import · gist · essence · purport · intention · implication · substance · thrust
reason
Basis or justification
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- wisdomGood judgment from experience
- practicalityQuality of being useful
prudence · discernment · understanding · intelligence · rationality · levelheadedness · shrewdness · acumen · sagacity · reasonableness
orientation
Position relative to surroundings
- bearingPosture or orientation
- navigationDetermining position and course
- northArctic-facing cardinal direction
way · course · heading · compass · position · location · placement · alignment · aim · trajectory
- meaningmeaning, significance, denotation, definition, connotation
- perceptionsee, vision, seeing, observing, watching
- sensessight, smell, taste, hearing, touch
- detectiondetect, discover, find, identify, locate
- explanationswhy, how come, explication, what happened, definition
- interpretationinterpretive dance, translation, interpreting, translating, construing
sensefoolishness
Unwise conduct
folly · stupidity · imprudence · senselessness · idiocy
sensemiss
Fail to reach
overlook · misperceive · misread · misinterpret · misapprehend
sensenonsense
Meaningless words or actions
meaninglessness · incoherence · absurdity · gibberish · illogic
- make senseBe comprehensible or logical
- common senseNative practical judgment
- making senseBecoming logically coherent
- sense of humorCapacity for amusement
- made senseWas coherent
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
sentence, sensitive, consent, senses, sensation, sensible, sentiment, senseless, resent