n. 1 faculty It's not always easy to tell if Brown's senses are all functioning 2 common sense, intelligence, perception, quick-wittedness, quickness, (mother) wit, judgement, reason, wisdom, sagacity, discrimination, discernment; sanity, Colloq brains, Slang Brit nous Fancy doing something like that! - she hasn't the sense she was born with! 3 See sensation, 1, above 4 meaning, intelligibility, coherence, head or tail, drift, gist, import, purport, nuance, significance, message, substance I was unable to get any sense out of what she was saying Yes, I wasn't able to make sense out of it either. 5 sentiment, atmosphere, impression, intuition, sensation I had a sense of being de trop - that I was not wanted
v. 6 feel, perceive, detect, divine, intuit, have a hunch or feeling, have or get or be under the impression that, suspect, Colloq have a funny feeling that, feel (something) in one's bones, pick up I sensed a certain antagonism in that last remark I sensed that he was getting bored with me.