sense

English

/sɛn(t)s/, /sɛns/, /sɪn(t)s/

noun
Definitions
  • Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
  • Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
  • Sound practical or moral judgment.
  • The meaning, reason, or value of something.
  • A natural appreciation or ability.
  • (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
  • (semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
  • (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
  • (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
  • (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sense derived from Old French sens, san, sen (reason, sense, direction) derived from Latin sensus (feeling, sense, sensation, meaning), *sennus derived from Frankish *sinn (sense, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction, mind, reason) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (feel, go, head for, true, being, head), *sent- (feel, go, head for, true, being, head).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*sent-

Gloss

feel, go, head for, true, being, head

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

頭

Emoji

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