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Definition of Sense

Sense

  1. A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
  2. Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
  3. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
  4. Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
  5. That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
  6. Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
  7. Moral perception or appreciation.
  8. One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
  9. To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Sense Quotations

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Sense Translations

sense in Afrikaans is voel
sense in Danish is sans
sense in Dutch is zin, betekenis
sense in Finnish is tuntea, merkitys
sense in French is sens, ressentir, signification
sense in Italian is levatura, accezione
sense in Latin is sensus, voluntas
sense in Portuguese is sentido
sense in Spanish is sentir, significacion, sentido, mente

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