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sense - noun

  1. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus: feeling, sensation, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment. See awareness.
  2. The condition of being aware: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, perception. See knowledge.
  3. The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge: brain(often used in plural), brainpower, intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind, understanding, wit. Slang smart(used in plural). See ability. thoughts.
  4. The ability to make sensible decisions: common sense, judgment, wisdom. Informal gumption, horse sense. See ability.
  5. A healthy mental state. lucidity, lucidness, mind, reason, saneness, sanity, soundness, wit(used in plural). Slang marble(used in plural). See sane.
  6. What is sound or reasonable: logic, rationale, rationality, rationalness, reason. See reason.
  7. That which is signified by a word or expression: acceptation, connotation, denotation, import, intent, meaning, message, purport, significance, significancy, signification, value. See meaning.

sense - verb

  1. To be intuitively aware of: apprehend, feel, intuit, perceive. See knowledge.
  2. To view in a certain way: believe, feel, hold, think. See opinion.
  3. To perceive and recognize the meaning of: accept, apprehend, catch(on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, read, see, take, take in, understand. Informal savvy. Slang dig. Chiefly British twig. Scots ken. See understand.