Sense vs. Sensibility

Sensenoun

Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.

Sensenoun

Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

Sensenoun

Sound practical or moral judgment.

Sensenoun

The meaning, reason, or value of something.

Sensenoun

A natural appreciation or ability.

Sensenoun

(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.

Sensenoun

(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.

Sensenoun

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.

Sensenoun

(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.

Sensenoun

(biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

Senseverb

To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.

Senseverb

To instinctively be aware.

Senseverb

To comprehend.

Sensenoun

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.

Sensenoun

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

Sensenoun

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

Sensenoun

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

Sensenoun

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

Sensenoun

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

Sensenoun

Moral perception or appreciation.

Sensenoun

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.

Senseverb

To perceive by the senses; to recognize.

Sensenoun

a general conscious awareness;

Sensenoun

the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted;

Sensenoun

the faculty through which the external world is apprehended;

Sensenoun

sound practical judgment;

Sensenoun

a natural appreciation or ability;

Senseverb

perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles;

Senseverb

detect some circumstance or entity automatically;

Senseverb

become aware of not through the senses but instinctively;

Senseverb

comprehend;

Sensenoun

a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch

Sensenoun

a feeling that something is the case

Sensenoun

a keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something

Sensenoun

a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems

Sensenoun

a reasonable or comprehensible rationale

Sensenoun

a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning

Sensenoun

a property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other

Sensenoun

relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.

Senseverb

perceive by a sense or senses

Senseverb

be aware of (something) without being able to define exactly how one knows

Senseverb

(of a machine or similar device) detect

Sense

A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the world and responding to stimuli. (For example, in the human body, the brain receives signals from the senses, which continuously receive information from the environment, interprets these signals, and causes the body to respond, either chemically or physically.) Although traditionally around five human senses were known (namely sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing), it is now recognized that there are many more.

Sensibilitynoun

The ability to sense, feel or perceive; responsiveness to sensory stimuli; sensitivity.

Sensibilitynoun

Emotional or artistic awareness; keen sensitivity to matters of feeling or creative expression.

Sensibilitynoun

Excessive emotional awareness; the fact or quality of being overemotional.

Sensibilitynoun

(in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling.

Sensibilitynoun

(obsolete) The capacity to be perceived by the senses.

Sensibilitynoun

The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

Sensibilitynoun

The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; - often used in the plural.

Sensibilitynoun

Experience of sensation; actual feeling.

Sensibilitynoun

That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.

Sensibilitynoun

mental responsiveness and awareness

Sensibilitynoun

refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions;

Sensibilitynoun

(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli;

Sensibility

Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. This concept emerged in eighteenth-century Britain, and was closely associated with studies of sense perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered.