Synonyms for sense
sɛnssense

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1. sense

   Mind, in a general sense, includes all the powers of sentient being apart from the physical factors in bodily faculties and activities; in a limited sense, mind is nearly synonymous with intellect, but includes disposition, or the tendency toward action, as appears in the phrase "to have a mind to work." As the seat of mental activity, brain (colloquially brains) is often used as a synonym for mind, intellect, intelligence. Thought, the act, process, or power of thinking, is often used to denote the thinking faculty, and especially the reason. The instinct of animals is now held by many philosophers to be of the same nature as the intellect of man, but inferior and limited; yet the apparent difference is very great.

   An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction.

   Paley Natural Philosophy ch. 18.

   In this sense we speak of human instincts, thus denoting tendencies independent of reasoning or instruction. The soul includes the intellect, sensibilities, and will; beyond what is expressed by the word mind, the soul denotes especially the moral, the immortal nature; we say of a dead body, the soul (not the mind) has fled. Spirit is used especially in contradistinction from matter; it may in many cases be substituted for soul, but soul has commonly a fuller and more determinate meaning; we can conceive of spirits as having no moral nature; the fairies, elves, and brownies of mythology might be termed spirits, but not souls. In the figurative sense, spirit denotes animation, excitability, perhaps impatience; as, a lad of spirit; he sang with spirit; he replied with spirit. Soul denotes energy and depth of feeling, as when we speak of soulful eyes; or it may denote the very life of anything; as, "the hidden soul of harmony," Milton L'Allegro l. 144. Sense may be an antonym of intellect, as when we speak of the sense of hearing; but sense is used also as denoting clear mental action, good judgment, acumen; as, he is a man of sense, or, he showed good sense; sense, even in its material signification, must be reckoned among the activities of mind, tho dependent on bodily functions; the mind, not the eye, really sees; the mind, not the ear, really hears. Consciousness includes all that a sentient being perceives, knows, thinks, or feels, from whatever source arising and of whatever character, kind, or degree, whether with or without distinct thinking, feeling, or willing; we speak of the consciousness of the brute, of the savage, or of the sage. The intellect is that assemblage of faculties which is concerned with knowledge, as distinguished from emotion and volition. Understanding is the Saxon word of the same general import, but is chiefly used of the reasoning powers; the understanding, which Sir Wm. Hamilton has called "the faculty of relations and comparisons," is distinguished by many philosophers from reason in that "reason is the faculty of the higher cognitions or a priori truth."

   Synonyms:
   brain, consciousness, disposition, instinct, intellect, intelligence, mind, reason, reason, soul, spirit, thought, understanding

   Antonyms:
   body, brawn, brute force, material substance, matter

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1. sense

   Synonyms:
   perception, sensation, feeling, apprehension, recognition, understanding, discernment, appreciation, sentiment, view, opinion, judgment, reason, consciousness, notion, meaning, import, signification, purport, significance, soundness, sagacity, wisdom

   Antonyms:
   non-perception, insensibility, misapprehension, misunderstanding, stolidity, nonappreciation, misconception, unsoundness, folly, nonsense, misinterpretation

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1. sensenoun

   a general conscious awareness

   "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self"

   Synonyms:
   gumption, sentience, sensory faculty, sensation, common sense, sentiency, horse sense, signified, mother wit, good sense

2. sense, signifiednoun

   the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted

   "the dictionary gave several senses for the word"; "in the best sense charity is really a duty"; "the signifier is linked to the signified"

   Synonyms:
   gumption, sentience, sensory faculty, sensation, common sense, sentiency, horse sense, signified, mother wit, good sense

3. sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory facultynoun

   the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

   "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

   Synonyms:
   adept, sentience, hotshot, virtuoso, good sense, aesthesis, champion, superstar, whiz, sentiency, mother wit, esthesis, awareness, horse sense, ace, genius, mavin, sensation, common sense, sense datum, maven, wiz, signified, sense impression, wizard, star, sense experience, sensory faculty, gumption, whizz

4. common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother witnoun

   sound practical judgment

   "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

   Synonyms:
   gumption, sensation, sentience, grit, sentiency, good sense, backbone, guts, common sense, sand, moxie, horse sense, signified, sensory faculty, mother wit

5. senseverb

   a natural appreciation or ability

   "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing"

   Synonyms:
   gumption, sentience, sensory faculty, sensation, common sense, sentiency, horse sense, signified, mother wit, good sense

6. feel, senseverb

   perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles

   "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"

   Synonyms:
   find, smell, smell out, palpate, finger, experience, feel

7. senseverb

   detect some circumstance or entity automatically

   "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization"

   Synonyms:
   feel, smell, smell out

8. smell, smell out, senseverb

   become aware of not through the senses but instinctively

   "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption"

   Synonyms:
   scent out, smack, smell out, nose out, sniff out, smell, reek, feel

9. senseverb

   comprehend

   "I sensed the real meaning of his letter"

   Synonyms:
   feel, smell, smell out

Matched Categories

1. • Awareness
   • Detect
   • Meaning
   • Perceive
   • Understand

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1. sensenoun

   Synonyms:
   faculty of perception

2. sensenoun

   Synonyms:
   feeling, sensibility, sensation

3. sensenoun

   Synonyms:
   intellect, mind, understanding, reason, brains, thinking principle, intellectual powers or faculties

4. sensenoun

   Synonyms:
   discernment, perception, sagacity, wisdom, tact, gumption, ballast, common sense

5. sensenoun

   Synonyms:
   opinion, judgment, notion, idea, conception, apprehension, view

6. sensenoun

   Synonyms:
   signification, meaning, import, purport, interpretation

7. sensenoun

   Synonyms:
   consciousness, persuasion, conviction

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1. sensenoun

   Synonyms:
   perception, sensation, sensibility, feeling, æsthesia, apprehension, understanding, wisdom, sagacity, judgment, notion, opinion, sentiment, view, conviction, consciousness

   Associated words:
   æsthematology, æsthesiography, sensuous, sensual, sensuality, sensuousness

2. senseverb

   Synonyms:
   perceive, recognize

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1. List of paraphrases for "sense":

   feeling, meaning, regard, sentiment, direction, feel, logic, impression, smell, respect, connection, logical, senses, perception, vein, sens, sensu, spirit, effect, idea, sensation, way, sensible, point, concept, reason, significance, context, awareness, consciousness, view

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1. List of known nicknames for "Sense":

   Adam M. Raisbeck

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1. SENSE

   Synonyms:
   The National Deafblind and Rubella Association

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1. Alexis karpouzos:

   We need a sense of the unity of life and of humans for the sake of human welfare and for the survival of the planet. We need a sense of unity with the cosmos so that we can connect with Reality. But we also need a sense of individuality, for the sake of our own dignity and independence and of the loving care for others. We need it to appreciate each natural form, each animal and plant, each human person in their uniqueness.

2. Neil Gorsuch:

   It’s no surprise that a lot of the false information spread on social media is deliberately spread by our enemies to sow disagreement internally in the country, if we allow them to destroy our sense of ‘we the people’ - our sense of community, our sense of our shared liberties that we love and treasure - that’s hard to come back from.

3. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly:

   The President has told me, 'Kelly, go do it. We need to protect the Southern border in any way that makes sense,' the President knows that I'm looking at variations on the theme, and I have no doubt that when I go back to him and say, 'Wall makes sense here, high-tech fencing makes sense over here, technology makes sense over here,' I have no doubt he'll tell me to go do it.

4. Randall Love:

   It gives me ... a sense of being worthwhile, a sense of being able to contribute to things, a sense of being able to help others, i get up just like everybody else in the morning. And I go to work, too. I'm not disabled. That's why I say it's the cure for me.

5. James Arthur Baldwin:

   Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities.