sixth sense

1. 1.

   grasping the inner nature of things intuitively

   Synonymsinsight

   Broaderintuition

Questions about sixth sense

What does sixth sense mean?

sixth sense means "grasping the inner nature of things intuitively".

What is another word for sixth sense?

Close synonyms include insight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sixth sense a common word?

sixth sense is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.