Definition of Sense

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Definition of Sense

Sense

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.

Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.

Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.

Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.

That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.

Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.

Moral perception or appreciation.

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.

To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

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Sense Quotations

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha

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

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

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
Wayne Dyer

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack Obama

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

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

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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