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/sɛns/ · noun
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste..
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
a sense of security
this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
high disdain from sense of injured merit
The days have vanish’d, tone and tint, And yet perhaps the hoarding sense Gives out at times (he knows not whence) A little flash, a mystic hint; […]
Where a college administration does not come forward and say that gay people have a right to be here, there is a sense among students that it is acceptable to harass and intimidate lesbian and gay members of that community.
It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
Use sense when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sense means Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste..
Common synonyms include non-nonsense, sense, substance, sensation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
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