sensed
Picked up on
Sensed is the past tense of sense, meaning perceived or detected something, often without direct evidence.
You might have sensed danger before seeing any threat, or sensed tension in a room the moment you walked in.
The word emphasizes awareness through intuition or subtle cues rather than explicit information: She sensed he was lying.
Noticed or found
- detectionAct of finding something
- monitorDisplay or supervisor
- radarRadio-wave object detection
- scannerDevice that reads data
surveillance · sonar · infrared · biometric · alarm · signal · indicator · tracking
Became aware of
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- noticedBecame aware of
- observedPerceived through attention
- discernedPerceived with effort
recognized · apprehended · grasped · registered · cognized · realized · interpreted · comprehended
Perceived without conscious reasoning
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
inkling · suspicion · foresight · presentiment · feeling · divined · foresaw · anticipated
detected
Noticed or found
scanner · surveillance · sonar · infrared · biometric · alarm · signal · indicator · tracking · alert
perceived
Became aware of
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- noticedBecame aware of
- observedPerceived through attention
discerned · recognized · apprehended · grasped · registered · cognized · realized · interpreted · comprehended · understood
intuited
Perceived without conscious reasoning
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
foreboding · inkling · suspicion · foresight · presentiment · feeling · divined · foresaw · anticipated · knew
felt
Compressed fiber textile
warmth · cold · tingle · itch · ache · numbness · soreness · pain · discomfort · pleasure
emotion
Complex psychological state
sympathy · passion · mood · affect · vibes · atmosphere · tension · hostility · warmth · coldness
- unexpressedunspoken, unstated, unuttered, suppressed, implicit
- awarenessalertness, aware, attention, cognizance, conscious
sensedmissed
Failed to reach
undetected · overlooked · unnoticed · unperceived · imperceptible
- make senseBe comprehensible or logical
- common senseNative practical judgment
- making senseBecoming logically coherent
- sense of humorCapacity for amusement
- made senseWas coherent
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
sense, nonsense, sensitive, senses, sensation, sensible, sensitivity, senseless, insensitive