Sense

Definition: Sense

Sense

Noun

1. A general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self".

2. 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".

3. The faculty through which the external world is apprehended.

4. Sound practical judgment; "I can't see the sense in doing it now"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately shw had the sense to run away".

5. A natural appreciation or ability; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing".

Verb

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sense" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SENSE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Sense

Imagination

Noun: meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.

Intelligence Wisdom

Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind.

Crosswords: Sense

German (scythe).

Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

I don't blame you for being scared - not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of white water (The African Queen; writing credit: C.S. Forester; James Agee)

When I was with him last night, I was looking into his eyes and could sense your feminine longing (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

You seem to have some shred of sense. What are you doing here (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp)

That doesn't make sense. But, then again, you are very small (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

But I swear that it's not making sense (When Can I See You; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface)

What if I lost sense of time (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

It makes no sense at all. (Stay Together For The Kids; performing artist: Blink-182)

Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

There's a pleasin' sense of happiness for me (Top Of The World; performing artist: Carpenters)

A maxim consists of a minimum of sound and a maximum of sense. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. (references; author: W.C. Fields)

Keen Sense Of Humor: Knows a lot of dirty jokes. (references; author: unknown)

No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway. (references; author: unknown)

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth: a sense of humor. (references; author: unknown)

Nothing But Common Sense (1972)

A Sense of Loss (1972)

The Sixth Sense (1972)

Sense and Sensibility (1971)

Talking Horse Sense (1959)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Sense Holdings, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Group Sense (International) Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Plain Talk About Money: A Common Sense Approach to Accumulating Wealth and Keeping It (reference)

• Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) (reference)

• The Common Sense of Socialism: A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg (reference)

• Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (reference)

• Child of Mine: Feeding With Love and Good Sense (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Common Sense (reference)

• Journal Of Common Sense (reference)

• Teller Sense (reference)

• Uncommon Sense (reference)

• Water Sense (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Capturing the Essentials: High Schools That Make Sense (reference)

• Common Sense Defense (reference)

• Common Sense Kitchen (reference)

• Common Sense Parenting Learn-at-Home Video Kit (reference)

• Magnum PI: Sense of Debt (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Sense of Wonder [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Wyse Technology Mc-5 Amber 80 132-Col 14In 2 Serial Auto Sense Wo/Keyboard (reference)

• Bear in the Big Blue House: Bear's Sense of Adventure (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This patient had developed a perforating ulcer of great toe resulting from tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis. This condition results from the destruction of the dorsal columns in the spinal cord, normally responsible for ones position sense. Credit: CDC.

Looking down from the top of a pressure ridge. Man in picture provides sense of height of ridge. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A hydrodynamically designed towed instrument package with a sense of humor. Credit: Fisheries.

... the game ... is specially made for blind children who have to substitute the sense of touch for that of sight. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Mohr..

The Organs Of Sense & Voice / Engraved and printed by W. and A.K. Johnston. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Well, you asked for it by running in the usual partisan political sense. Credit: Library of Congress.

Common sense? here's some commoner sense!. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Tee hee" boys - Born with a vote and a partial sense of the ridiculous / J.S. Credit: Library of Congress.

It makes no sense to gamble with your future!. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Spirit of comrade Norman Bethune's utter devotion to others without any thought of self is manifested in his boundless sense of responsibility in his work and his extreme warmheartedness towards his comrades and the people. Every party member should l. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In some commonwealths, where the legislative is not always in being, and the executive is vested in a single person, who has also a share in the legislative; there that single person in a very tolerable sense may also be called supreme: not that he has in himself all the supreme power, which is that of law-making; but because he has in him the supreme execution, from whom all inferior magistrates derive all their several subordinate powers, or at least the greatest part of them: having also no legislative superior to him, there being no law to be made without his consent, which cannot be expected should ever subject him to the other part of the legislative, he is properly enough in this sense supreme. (Second Treatise of Government)

Affirmative words are often, in their operation, negative of other objects than those affirmed; and in this case, a negative or exclusive sense must be given to them or they have no operation at all. (reference)

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. (reference)

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. (The Gettysburg Address)

If you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done but also you must feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. (reference)

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1910)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

His good sense and good principles would delight you.

Here the Empress experienced one of those flashes of Common Sense which were the surprise of all around her.

As to (r)her, she was worthy to be his partner in every sense of the term

Not the less, however, came this importunately obtrusive sense of change

There must be, even in puffs, good sense and art.

He told himself calmly that those words had absolutely no sense which had seemed to rise murmurously from the dark

Them goddamn Okies got no sense and no feeling

The Queen giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was however surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal

To many creatures there is in this sense but one necessary of life, Food

A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The user's sense of time and self changes. (references)

Flavors are recognized mainly through the sense of smell. (references)

Rabies is not, in the natural sense, a disease of humans. (references)

Business

Consequently, "high-tech" dual use fields and technologies would seem to make sense for Norway. (references)

In that sense, those businesses with the most potential are those related to electronic monetary transactions. (references)

In one sense, then the economic crisis showed companies the practical benefits of investing in energy efficiency. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bosnia and Herzegovina

While different refugee organizations provide different estimates on the numbers of minority returns, they all agree that the rate of minority returns during the year was nearly twice that of 2000. Pressure from evictions, combined with an increased sense of security in most areas of the country and awareness that international assistance was not inexhaustible, prompted the increase in returns. (references)

Economic History

Italy

There is only partial judicial review of legislation in the American sense. (references)

The Netherlands

The Liberal Party is "liberal" in the European, rather than American, sense of the word. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Resources remain limited, but shift adjustments and reorganization of guard posts reportedly resulted in a heightened sense of security at the prison during the year. (references)

India

Although evidence is lacking, a higher incidence of abuse appears credible, given other evidence of abusive behavior by police and the likelihood that many rapes go unreported due to a sense of shame and a fear of retribution among victims. (references)

Political Economy

Portugal

As a result, the Portuguese have a strong sense of national identity and regional fragmentation is not a potent political issue here. (references)

Trade

Netherlands

However, in a very real sense, the entire country is a free trade zone. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Common sense precautions one would take in any large, metropolitan area in the United States should be followed in Abidjan as well. (references)

Japan

However, even in the large family firms, where decisions are made at the top, the process is usually managed so that company members have a sense of participation. (references)

Women

Libya

In recent years, a growing sense of individualism in some segments of society, especially among the educated young, has been noted. (references)

Swaziland

Rape also is common and regarded by many men as a minor offense, while women are inhibited from reporting such crimes by a sense of shame and helplessness, especially when incest is involved. (references)

Fiji

However, following the attempted coup in 2000 and the resulting general sense of lawlessness and downturn in the economy, reports of domestic violence and police brutality against women increased. (references)

Worker Rights

Syria

The right to organize and bargain collectively does not exist in any meaningful sense. (references)

Egypt

Collective bargaining does not exist in any meaningful sense because by law the Government sets wages, benefits, and job classifications. (references)

Bolivia

The CSUTCB, led by Felipe Quispe, is not a trade union in the traditional sense, since there is no counterpart employer with which to bargain. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sense": a man of sense ♦ ad in no sense ♦ auditory sense ♦ bang sense into smb. ♦ business sense ♦ by sense of touch ♦ carrier sense multiple access ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision avoid ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance ♦ carrier sense multiple access with collision detection ♦ carrier sense multiple access/collision detection ♦ carrier sense signal ♦ come to one's sense ♦ common sense ♦ Counter sense ♦ deep sense ♦ determination of sense ♦ devoid of sense ♦ equilibrium sense ♦ feel a sense of bereavement ♦ fine sense of humor ♦ fine sense of humour ♦ general sense ♦ good sense ♦ have a keen sense of hearing ♦ have a sense of impending danger ♦ have a sense of smell ♦ have a sense of time ♦ have no sense ♦ have no sense of direction ♦ have no sense of humor ♦ have no sense of humour ♦ have no sense of shame ♦ he hasn't a vestige of common sense ♦ he hasn't an ounce of common sense ♦ Historical sense ♦ horse sense ♦ Illative sense ♦ in a bad sense ♦ in a certain sense ♦ in a figurative sense ♦ in a literal sense ♦ in a pickwickian sense ♦ in a sense ♦ in a transferred sense ♦ in an extended sense ♦ in defiance of common sense ♦ in every sense ♦ in the full sense of the word ♦ in the literal sense ♦ in the narrow sense ♦ in the narrowest sense of the word ♦ in the sense of ♦ in the strict sense ♦ in this sense ♦ labyrinthine sense ♦ lack of sense or smell ♦ lose one's sense ♦ make sense ♦ make sense of ♦ mark sense reader ♦ moral sense ♦ muscle sense ♦ muscular sense ♦ persistent carrier sense multiple access ♦ person of sense ♦ pertaining to sense ♦ ready sense ♦ road sense ♦ schmaltzy sense ♦ sense aerial ♦ sense antenna ♦ sense capsule ♦ sense danger ♦ sense datum ♦ sense experience ♦ sense impression ♦ sense line ♦ sense modality ♦ sense of a common bond ♦ sense of balance ♦ sense of beauty ♦ sense of belonging ♦ sense of color ♦ sense of colour ♦ sense of community ♦ sense of direction ♦ sense of discomfort ♦ sense of duty ♦ sense of equilibrium ♦ sense of fatique ♦ sense of guilt ♦ sense of hearing ♦ sense of honor ♦ sense of honour ♦ sense of humor ♦ sense of humour ♦ sense of locality ♦ sense of movement ♦ sense of obligation ♦ sense of pain. Additional references.

Beginning with "sense": sense-altering, sense-assaultingly, sense-awakening, sense-based, sense-content, sense-contents, sense-data, sense-datum, sense-dulling, sense-experience, sense-experiences, sense-field, sense-group, sense-groups, sense-impressions, sense-making, sense-modification, sense-of-wonder, sense-organ, sense-organs, sense-perception, sense-perceptions, sense-qualification, sense-qualifier, sense-qualifiers, sense-qualifying, sense-sections, sense-slaughtering, sense-spectra, sense-spectrum, Sense-sphere, sense-strand, sense-unit, sense-units.

Ending with "sense": dress-sense.

Afrikaans

voel (feel), insig (notion, realization), besef (awareness, be aware of, be conscious of, consciousness, notion, realise, realization, realize, understand), benul (idea, notion, realization). (various references)

Albanian

sens, përshtypje (account, conception, effect, experience, impress, impression, sound), ndjesi (feeling, sensation, sexiness), ndjenjë (emotion, feeling, passion, sensation, sentiment, vibes), ndjej (forgive, pardon, remit, sensate, smack, smelt, suffer), mendje (brain, head, intellect, mentality, mind, reason, wit), kuptoj (apprehend, catch, comprehend, cotton on, fathom, figure out, find, gather, get, grasp, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick out, Pierce, see, see through, take, take in, twig on, understand), kuptim (comprehension, conception, construction, drift, hang, import, meaning, perception, point, purport, realization, significance, signification, stress, understanding), kam përshtypje (sensate), domethënie (connotation, drift, import, importance, meaning, purport, significance), arsye (account, argument, cause, consideration, justice, justification, matter, motivation, motive, nous, occasion, place, plea, reason, spring, why), arësye (account, argument, cause, consideration, justice, justification, matter, motivation, motive, nous, occasion, place, plea, reason, spring, why). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حاسة (receptor, sense organ), ‏أدرك (apprehend, awake, comprehend, feel, follow, get at, observe, overhaul, overtake, penetrate, perceive, pierce, realize, recognize, rejoin, see, see daylight, sober up, take, twig, understand), ‏أحس (feel), ‏إدراك (appreciation, apprehension, cognizance, comprehension, conception, grasp, intelligence, knowledge, maturity, puberty, pubescence, realization, reason, recognition, responsiveness, savvy, science, senses, sensibilities, sensibility, smart, understanding), ‏إستشعر, ‏إتجاه (bearing, course, direction, drift, movement, orientation, persuasion, quarter, range, temper, tendency, tenor, trend), ‏إحساس (emotion, feel, feeling, sensation, sensibility), ‏ذوق (decorum, gust, palate, tact, taste), ‏شعر (feel, felt, furriness, hair, notify, poetry, rhyme, song, verse, warn), ‏عقل (brains, intellect, intelligence, layer, mentality, mind, pate, picket, psyche, reason, skull, steady, wit), عقل (mind), ‏حسن التقدير, ‏غريزة (instinct), ‏وعى أخلاقي, ‏لمس (fell, finger, handle, perceive, touch), ‏معنى (concept, import, meaning, purport, significance), ‏مغزى (import, meaning, moral, moral of a fable, purport, significance, signification, tenor), ‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏صواب (reason, right, senses). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чувствувам (entertain, feel), посока (course, direction, heading, line, run, set, strike, track, way), предчувствувам (anticipate, divine, feel, forebode, presage, prevision), здрав разум (common sense, gumption, nous, reason, sanity), здрава преценка, значение (account, amount, consequence, consideration, denotation, hang, heft, import, importance, intention, interest, magnitude, matter, meaning, message, moment, notability, object, pith, significance, signification, tenor, value, weight), насока (direction, guide line, line, movement, path, pattern, run, set, stream, tide, turn), общо настроение, долавям (catch, detect, note, observe), чувство (affect, emotion, feel, feeling, sensation, sentiment), схващам (apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, discover, get, get a hold of, grasp, note, perceive, pick up, see, take in, twig, understand), разбирам (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, cotton, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick up, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, take, take in, think, understand, work out), сетивен (material, sensate, sensational, sensible, sensorial, sensory, sensual, sensuous), сетиво, смисъл (amount, effect, hang, import, intent, intention, matter, message, point, signification, sound, spirit, use), усет (eye, feel, feeling, flair, good sense, nose, prehension, sensibility), усещам (feel, observe, perceive, scent), усещане (feel, feeling, perception, prehension, sensation, sensibility), общо отношение. (various references)

Chinese 

道理 (argument, basis, justification, principle, reason), 情理 (reason), 感觉 (Feeling, feelings, sensation, sensed, Sensibilities, sensibility, sensing, sensorial), 感覺 (feeling, perception, to become aware of, to feel), 感官 . (various references)

Czech

zdravý rozum (common sense, gumption), význam (denotement, import, importance, meaning, moment, purport, significance, value), vìdomí (consciousness, knowledge), uvìdomit si (perceive, realize), tušit (conjecture, forebode, presage, smell, surmise, suspect), cítit (feel, smell, taste). (various references)

Danish

sans. (various references)

Dutch

zin (acceptation, contention, desire, disposal, feel, feeling, inclination, intention, meaning, opinion, plan, pleasure, sensation, sentence, tendency, want, will, willingness, wish), gevoel (feel, feeling, sensation, sentiment), betekenis (acceptation, concern, meaning). (various references)

Esperanto

senti (feel), sensorgano, senso, senco (meaning), kompreno (notion, realization). (various references)

Estonian

aru. (various references)

Faeroese

týdningur (acceptation, meaning), meining (contention, meaning, opinion), kensla (feel, feeling, sensation, sentiment), kenna (be acquainted with, feel, go through, know, live to see, teach), føla (feel). (various references)

Farsi 

پی بردن (Discover, Hock), مفهوم (Concept, Context, Effect, Hang, Implication, Implicit, Intelligible, Intention, Moral, Purporst, Significance, Sound, Substance, Tacit), مفاد (Content, Context, Intent, Purporst, Scope, Significance, Substance, Tenor, Text), معنی (Abstract, Connotation, Definition, Drift, Effect, Idea, Implication, Innuendo, Intent, Moral, Purporst, Significance), هوش (Brain, Esprit, Intellect, Intelligence, Sagacity, Understanding, Wit, Witting), حواس پنجگانه , حس تشخیص , حس (Quale, Sensation), احساس کردن (Appreciate, Feel), احساس (Gusto, Impression, Sensation, Sentiment), شعور (Reason). (various references)

Finnish

merkitys (importance, meaning, significance). (various references)

French

sens, signification, sentir, sentiment (sensation, sentiment), ressentir. (various references)

Frisian

gefoel (feel, feeling, sensation), fielen (feel, feeling, sensation), fiele (feel, to feel). (various references)

German

Sinn (acceptation, feel, feeling, inclination, meaning, mind, point, sensation, signification, spirit), Verstand (brain, head, intellect, intelligence, judgment, meaning, mind, reason, sanities, sanity, savvied, senses, understanded, understanding, wit), Wahrnehmung (awareness, cognition, detection, exercise, observing, perception, perceptions), Gefühl (delicateness, emotion, feel, feeling, hunch, impression, sensation, sentiment, soul, touch), fühlen (feel, grope, to feel, to sense), empfinden (feel, feeling, perceive, to sense). (various references)

Greek 

νόημα (meaning, nod, sing, tenor), αίσθηση (consciousness, percept, sensation), διαισθάνομαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

חוש (feeling). (various references)

Hungarian

érzék (conscience, feel, sensibility, talent, taste). (various references)

Icelandic

skilningur (notion, realization). (various references)

Indonesian

perasaan (feeling, sentiment), pengertian (comprehension, insight, understanding), mencium (buss, osculate, smack, smell), mencerap (apprehend, show interest in), arti (meaning, significance, signification). (various references)

Italian

sentire (feel, give, give off an odour, hear, reek, smell, taste), senso (direction, humor, humour, meaning, point, purport). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

知恵 (advice, intelligence, sagacity, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おぼえ (experience, memory), ねん (attention, care, concern, desire, feeling, idea, thought), さっち (infer), かんねん (acceptance, conception, idea, notion, preparedness, resignation), かんせい (accomplishment, cheer, complete, completion, control, dry, dryness, government-manufactured, government-regulated organization or facility etc., inertia, perfection, pitfall, quiet, sensitiveness, sensitivity, shout, shout of joy, snoring sound, tranquil, trap), かんかく (audience, interval, sensation, space, SPC, spectators, visitors), かんじ (arranging, Chinese characters, coordinator, executive secretary, feeling, government business, impression, kanji, manager, stereotyped epithet, supervisor), りせい (reason), けんしゅつ (detection), じり (benefitting oneself, facts, propriety, reason), ちえ (advice, intellect, intelligence, sagacity, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Korean 

감 (going, Persimmon, tending). (various references)

Malay

faham (notion, realization). (various references)

Manx

keeayle, keeall (significance), keeaill, ennaghtyn (atmosphere, experience, feel, feeling, gratitude, noble sentiments, perceive, realization, sensation, sensibility, sympathy). (various references)

Papiamen

sinti (feel), sentimentu (feel, feeling, sensation), sentimento (feel, feeling, sensation), heful (feel, feeling, sensation). (various references)

Pig Latin

ensesay.(various references)

Polish

uczucie (feel, feeling, sensation), odczuwać (feel). (various references)

Portuguese

sentido (direction, eye, feeling, hang, hearty, import, meaning, purport, signification, tenor, way), sentir (experience, feel, receive, regret, take, to feel), senso (eye, wisdom). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

sentido (direction), senso. (various references)

Romanian

simţi (be, experience, feel, scent, smoke), simţ, senzorial (sensorial, sensory, sensuous), sentiment (conception, emotion, feeling, flush, pathos, sensation, sentiment, view), sens (acceptance, acceptation, amount, bearing, direction, drift, hang, importance, logic, meaning, purport, reason, signification, traffic, use, value, way), semnificaţie (amount, gut, importance, meaning, noteworthiness, pregnancy, significance, signification, value), presimţi (divine, feel, scent, smell), accepţiune (acceptation, acception, signification), adulmeca (feel, foreknow, foresee, get on the scent, guess, nose, pick up the scent, scent, smell, smell out, smoke, sniff, suspect, trace), bun-simţ (good-breeding, sanity, sobriety, wisdom), cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, promontory, rock, skull, top, understanding), chichirez, cuget (conscience, mind, spirit, thinking, thought), cuminţenie (cleverness, discretion, reason, reasonableness, sapience, seriousness, wisdom), intui (intuit), judecatã sãnãtoasã (sanity), înţeles (import, meaning, significance, signification, spirit), noimã (aim, profit), tâlc (allegory, comparison, moral, significance), pricepe (apprehend, catch, catch on, come it, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton, enter into, latch on, perceive, pick out, savvy, see, see into, seize, take, take in, tumble to, understand), raţiune (ground, intellect, intelligence, lucidity, mind, motive, ratio, rationality, reason, understanding, wit), rost (hang, household, joint, parting, role), minte (brain, imagination, intellect, judgment, mind, nous, pate, reason, savvy, spirit, thinking, wisdom, wit, wits). (various references)

Russian 

смысл (import, meaning, purport, semantics), разум (mind, nous, reason, wit), чувствовать значение;чувство, чувствовать (experience, feel, sensate), чувство (feeling, sentiment), толк (use), ощущение (feeling, sensation), ощущать (appreciate, feel, perceive, sensate), мнение (account, belief, expert evidence, mind, notion, opinion, say, thinking, verdict, view, voice), значение (account, consequence, importance, meaning, meanings, purport, significance, signification, store, value), здравый смысл (common sense, good sense, nous), понимать (apprehend, aprehend, catch on, comprehend, figure out, gain an insight into, get, get to know, perceive, realize, savvies, take, twig, understand, understood). (various references)

Scottish

seagh, seadh (it is so, just so, meaning, understanding, yes), tùr (a tower, intention, invent, meaning, sagacity, understanding), purp , purpais, conn, ciall (darling, meaning, understanding), ceudfadh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smisao (import, meaning, point, purport, signification, talent), shvatiti (apprehend, apprise, apprize, catch, catch on, comprehend, conceive, figure out, get, grasp, realize, tumble, twig, understand), osećanje (sentiment), osećaj (feel, feeling, sensation, sentience), opaziti (note, observe, perceive, sensate), naslutiti (anticipate), čulo. (various references)

Spanish

sentir (be sorry, be sorry about, be sorry to, bear, feel, hear, long, regret), sentido (expression, extraction, felt, gist, heartfelt, import, instinct, lift, line, meaning, purport, senses, tack, why), sentimiento (affect, feel, feeling, regret, sensation, sentiment, sympathy), inteligencia (abilities, brains, brightness, comprehension, head, intelligence, knowledge, notion, realization, understanding, wit). (various references)

Swedish

vett (savvy, wit), sinne (flair, heart, inclination, mind, taste, temper), mening (contention, drift, estimation, feeling, idea, import, intention, meaning, opinion, purport, purpose, sentence, tenor), känsla (emotion, feel, feeling, flair, impression, sensation, sentiment, touch), betydelse (acceptation, account, bearing, consequence, denotation, distinction, import, importance, largeness, meaning, meanings, moment, significance, signification, weight), bemärkelse. (various references)

Thai

สัมผัสที่หก (sixth sense), สัมผัสที่ 6 (sixth sense). (various references)

Turkish

sezmek (antedate, anticipate, be sensible of, detect, discern, divine, feel, guess, have a scent for smth., intuit, perceive, rumble, scent, see, smell, sniff, taste blood), sezme (anticipation, discernment, divination, flair, inkling, insight, perception, percipience, precognition), sağduyu (common sense, farsightedness, foresight, forethought, good sense, horse sense, judgement, lucidity, lucidness, mother wit, nous, prudence, reason), farkında olmak (be awake to smth., be aware, be hip to), algılamak (comprehend, perceive, pick up), amaç (aim, bourn, Bourne, cause, consummation, design, destination, dream, drift, function, goal, idea, ideal, intent, intention, meaning, mission, object, objective, plan, point, purpose, purview, scope, target, terminus, turn, use, view, wherefore, will), anlam (acceptation, construction, content, denotation, effect, explanation, hang, import, inference, meaning, point, purport, purview, significance, significancy, signification, sound, strain, tenor), anlama (appreciation, apprehension, comprehension, drift, fathom, grasp, grip, insight, intelligence, knowledge, prehension, realization, understanding, uptake), anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, catch on, click, compass, comprehend, conceive, cotton on to, dawn on, deduce, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, figure out, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, realize, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sum up, take in, twig, understand, wake to, waken, work out), anlayix (notion, realization), bilincinde olma, düşünce (apprehension, attitude, belief, cogitation, conceit, consideration, counsel, fancy, idea, ideo-, judgement, mind, opinion, reasoning, remark, say so, sentiments, thinking, thought, voice), duyarlı olmak, duygu (chord, emotion, feel, feeling, sensation, sentiment), algı (apprehension, feeling, perception, sensation), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist), yön (aspect, bearings, channel, complexion, course, direction, directional, facet, trend, way), his (chord, consciousness, emotion, feel, feeling, sensation, sentiment), hissetme (feel, feeling, perceiving, sensation, understanding), hissetmek (feel, perceive, smell, take, understand), kanı (belief, conclusion, deliverance, esteem, estimation, eye, fancy, idea, impression, judgement, notion, opinion, persuasion, sentiments, sight, surmise, thought, view), manâ (explanation, hang, import, meaning, purport, signification), niyet (aim, contemplation, counsel, design, determination, faith, idea, intent, intention, plan, pulse, purpose, resolution, resolve, scope, thought, will), us (mind, reason, senses), duyu (sensation). (various references)

Turkmen 

tikeneklemek (feel), duяgy (feeling). (various references)

Ukrainian

усвідомлювати (acknowledge, apperceive, appreciate, be aware of, be conscious of, figure out, know, recognize, understand), смисл (purport, sound), чуття (feel, feelings, flair, intuition, nose), відчувати (appreciate, feel, nose, perceive, sensate), значення (account, bearing, consequence, знаЧеннЯ [n], import, intent, meaning, purport, significance, significancy, signification, sound, value, weight), загальний настрій. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thông minh nghĩa, tình cảm chung hướng, khả năng thưởng thức sự khôn ngoan, giác quan tri giác, chiều đầu óc minh mẫn điên, cảm giác ý thức khả năng phán đoán, ý nghĩa ý nghĩa. (various references)

Welsh

synnwyr, ystyr (meaning), ymdeimlad (feeling), pwyll (discretion), callineb (wisdom). (various references)

acceptio, acceptione, consilia, consilii, consiliis, consilio, consiliorum, consilium, consiliumque, intellectu, intellectum, intellectus, sensibus, sensu, sensui, sensum, sensus, sentire, tenor, voluntas. (various references)

andgit. (various references)

tenour. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sense": sensed, senseful, senseless, senselessly, senselessness, senselessnesses, senses. (additional references)

Words ending with "sense": antisense, commonsense, missense, multisense, nonsense, subsense. (additional references)

Words containing "sense": missenses, nonsenses, subsenses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sense" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ense, esne, Esneh, esse, ostensam, Pensee, sanes, Sanzo, scense, scnse, sease, seen'em, seens, seese, sehne, Seisay, sekne, Selnes, semse, Senbef, sence, sende, sendel, sendeth, sene, Seneb, Senese, Senex, Senise, sensa, sensai, sensal, sensay, sensce, sensee, sensel, senser, sensh, sensi, Senskell, senso, sensu, senta, sente, senti, senz, Senza, sepsu, serse, sesne, Sesok, Sessa, Sessey, seuse, seyssel, shen-sei, Shensi, shenzen, siense, sinqe, sinse, snes, snez, Spense, Svennsen, Swessex, wense, Zeesen, zens. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eses, ness, seen, sees, sene.

-2 letters: ens, ess, nee, see, sen.

-3 letters: en, es, ne.

+1 letter: censes, ensues, lenses, lessen, menses, mesnes, nesses, scenes, seines, semens, sensed, senses, sevens, sheens, skeens, skenes, sneers, sneesh, spense, tenses.

+2 letters: avenses, censers, densest, dueness, encases, endless, enisles, enserfs, ensiles, enskies, ensures, entases, eosines, essence, fewness, feyness, finesse, flenses, geneses, genesis, genuses, joneses, kineses, knesset, lessens, messmen, neguses, nemeses, nemesis, nesters, nestles, netless, newness, newsies, nexuses, oneness, penises, pensees, redness, renests, resends, resents, sateens, screens, seances, secerns, seeings, seiners, senates, senders, senecas, senegas, seniles, sennets, senores, sensate, sereins, serenes, serines, sestine, siemens, signees, skeanes, sneezes, spences, spenses, sphenes, spleens, swevens, tensest, uneases, unsexes, waeness, wetness, woeness.