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say it: sens
sense is a noun and verb meaning "a general conscious awareness". It carries 9 recorded senses.
a general conscious awareness
“a sense of security”
“a sense of happiness”
“a sense of danger”
“a sense of self”
the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
“the dictionary gave several senses for the word”
“in the best sense charity is really a duty”
“the signifier is linked to the signified”
the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
“in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
sound practical judgment
“Common sense is not so common”
“he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples”
“fortunately she had the good sense to run away”
detect some circumstance or entity automatically
“This robot can sense the presence of people in the room”
“particle detectors sense ionization”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sense come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.