Sense
Definition of Sense
| n. | 1. | (Physiol.) 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. | (Geom.) 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.| Common sense | | a - | "The complement of those cognitions or convictions which we receive from nature, which all men possess in common, and by which they test the truth of knowledge and the morality of actions." | | b - | "The faculty of first principles." These two are the philosophical significations. | | c - | "Such ordinary complement of intelligence, that,if a person be deficient therein, he is accounted mad or foolish." | | d - | When the substantive is emphasized: "Native practical intelligence, natural prudence, mother wit, tact in behavior, acuteness in the observation of character, in contrast to habits of acquired learning or of speculation." |
| Moral sense | | a - | See under Moral, (a). |
| | v. t. | 1. | To perceive by the senses; to recognize. |
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