countersense
English
noun
Definitions
- An opposite meaning.
- A nonsensical idea; a contradiction in terms; something that contradicts an established principle, architectural or musical style, etc.
Etymology
Prefix from English sense.
Origin
English
sense
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ambisense English
- antisense English
- commonsense English
- cowsense English
- foresense English
- lack-mind English
- mechanosense English
- missense English
- multisense English
- nonsense English
- oversense English
- sensable English
- sense English
- senseful English
- senseless English
- sensely English
- sensemaking English
- sensest English
- senseth English
- sensical English
- sensigenous English
- sensism English
- sensist English
- sensive English
- sensor English
- subsense English
- supersense English
- undersense English
- unsense English
- senso Italian
- センス Japanese
- sense Middle English
- sense Afrikaans
- 센스쟁이 Korean