sense

/sɛns/ · /sɛnts/

Etymology From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, perception, direction”); partly from Latin sēnsus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn ("reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"; whence also Dutch zin, German Sinn, Swedish sinne, Norwegian sinn). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).

Synonyms

non-nonsense, sense

Derived terms

76 terms

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Related terms

33 terms

extrasensory, sensation, sensible, sensical, sensitive, sensor, sensorium, sensual, sensuous, audition, equilibrioception, gustation, hearing, nociception, olfaction, proprioception, sight, smell, tactition, taste, thermoception, touch, vision, perception, cognition, nervous system, neuroscience, perceptibility, perceptible, sensory, perceive, produce sensation, perceptibly

Hyponyms

business sense, common sense, fashion sense, sense of humor, sense of humour, sixth sense, time sense, transferred sense, audition, equilibrioception, gustation, kinesthetic sense, nociception, olfaction, proprioception, tactition, thermoception, vestibular sense, vision

Holonyms

five senses, six senses