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

the bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk

a feeling that something is the case

she had the sense of being a political outsider

you can improve your general health and sense of well-being

a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems

he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings

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

it is not clear which sense of the word ‘characters’ is intended in this passage

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

the cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite sense

perceive by a sense or senses

with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days

(of a machine or similar device) detect

an optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor