Definition of sense

"sense" in the noun sense

1. sense

a general conscious awareness

"a sense of security"

"a sense of happiness"

"a sense of danger"

"a sense of self"

2. sense, signified

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

"the dictionary gave several senses for the word"

"in the best sense charity is really a duty"

"the signifier is linked to the signified"

3. sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty

the faculty through which the external world is apprehended

"in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

4. common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit

sound practical judgment

"Common sense is not so common"

"he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"

"fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

5. sense

a natural appreciation or ability

"a keen musical sense"

"a good sense of timing"

"sense" in the verb sense

1. feel, sense

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

"He felt the wind"

"She felt an object brushing her arm"

"He felt his flesh crawl"

"She felt the heat when she got out of the car"

2. sense

detect some circumstance or entity automatically

"This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"

"particle detectors sense ionization"

3. smell, smell out, sense

become aware of not through the senses but instinctively

"I sense his hostility"

"I smell trouble"

"smell out corruption"

4. sense

comprehend

"I sensed the real meaning of his letter"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

Princeton University "About WordNet®."
WordNet®. Princeton University. 2010.


View WordNet® License

Quotations for sense

The sense of right. [ Dr. Watson ]

Giving requires good sense. [ Ovid ]

Poverty is the sixth sense. [ German Proverb ]

Sense, shortness, and salt. [ James Howell ]

The sense of duty pursues us ever. [ Joseph Cook ]

Common sense is not a common thing. [ Valaincourt ]

A deluge of words and a drop of sense. [ Proverb ]

The moral sense grows but by exercise. [ Robert Browning ]

Good sense is the master of human life. [ Bossuet ]

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. [ Pope ]

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense. [ Disraeli ]

Good taste is the flower of good sense. [ A. Poincelot ]

We have an intuitive sense of our duty. [ Swift ]

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense! [ Pope ]

Defend me, common sense, say I,
From reveries so airy, from the toil
Of dropping buckets into empty wells,
And growing old with drawing nothing up. [ William Cowper ]

I am giddy; expectation whirls me around.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good-nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive divine. [ Pope ]

Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense
Of service which thou renderest. [ E. B. Browning ]

The sense of death is most in apprehension. [ William Shakespeare ]

Common sense is the growth of all countries. [ Proverb ]

Gratitude is a keen sense of favours to come. [ Talleyrand ]

O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her
And be her sense but as a monument. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love the sense of right and wrong confounds;
Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. [ John Dryden ]

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For even the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill. [ Sir John Davies ]

At every trifle scorn to take offence;
That always shows great pride or little sense. [ Pope ]

Good-sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven. [ Pope ]

The sense of taste is the most exquisite of all. [ Cicero ]

Words are like leaves, and when they most abound
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. [ Alexander Pope ]

What day, what hour, but knocks at human hearts,
To wake the soul to sense of future scenes?
Deaths stand like Mercurys, in every way,
And kindly point us to our journey's end. [ Dr. Young ]

Grasp the whole worlds of reason, lip and sense,
In one close system of benevolence. [ Pope ]

Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. [ Roscommon ]

The string that jars
When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense,
With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers,
Swells into harmony and charms the hearers. [ Rowe ]

'Tis good nature only wins the heart;
It moulds the body to an easy grace
And brightens every feature of the face;
It smoothes the unpolish'd tongue with eloquence
And adds persuasion to the finest sense. [ Stillingfleet ]

Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine.
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. [ Milton ]

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims
Tidings of good to Zion. [ Charles Lamb ]

Within a bony, labyrinthean cave,
Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave,
This sibyl, sweet, and mystic sense is found,
Muse, that presides over all the powers of sound. [ Abraham Coles ]

Good-nature and good sense are usually companions. [ Pope ]

Confidence goes farther in company than good sense. [ Proverb ]

The public sense is in advance of private practice. [ Chapin ]

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind. [ La Roche ]

The keenest of all our senses is the sense of sight. [ Cicero ]

No fact in nature but carries the whole sense of nature. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Rhyme without melody and sense is an abortion of the muse. [ Iscanus ]

Science is nothing but trained and organised common sense. [ Huxley ]

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force. [ Alcott ]

A fool cannot look, nor stand, nor walk like a man of sense. [ La Bruyere ]

Ladies will rather pardon want of sense than want of manners. [ Proverb ]

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness, - all in one. [ Richardson ]

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty. [ Hazlitt ]

Women are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A great blockhead hath not stuff enough to make a man of sense. [ Proverb ]

To place wit above sense, is to place superfluity above utility. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason. [ Stanislaus ]

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise. [ James Ellis ]

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. [ Voltaire ]

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

He that deals with a senseless man had need of a good deal of sense. [ Proverb ]

Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. [ Coleridge ]

The two rarest things to be met with are good sense and good nature. [ William Hazlitt ]

Love is blind: that is why he always proceeds by the sense of touch.

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence. [ Longfellow ]

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors. [ Sir Robert Walpole ]

The crickets sing, and man's overlabored sense repairs itself by rest. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence. [ Rochester ]

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. [ Bruyere ]

Good sense is both the first principle and parent-source of good writing. [ Horace ]

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time. [ Livy ]

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. [ Earl of Roscommon ]

And though all cry down self, none means his own self in a literal sense. [ Butler ]

A secret passion defends the heart of a woman better than her moral sense. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power. [ Hazlitt ]

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor. [ Sterne ]

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

We say a thing is without rhyme or reason when it has neither number nor sense. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. [ Pope ]

The fresh and buoyant sense of being that bounds in youth's yet careless breast. [ Moore ]

To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary. [ M. de Montlosier ]

Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures: the sense informs the soul. [ Sydney Smith ]

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. [ Juvenal ]

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. [ Addison ]

He who has reason and good sense at his command needs few of the arts of the orator. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity. [ Tillotson ]

Man must either make provision of sense to understand, or of a halter to hang himself. [ Antisthenes ]

Women have always been picturesque protests against the mere existence of common sense. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Heaps of huge words uphoarded hideously, with horrid sound, though having little sense. [ Spenser ]

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. [ Richard Steele ]

Might but the sense of moral evil be as strong in me as is my delight in external beauty! [ Dr. Arnold ]

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. [ Coleridge ]

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. [ Pope ]

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. [ R. L. Stevenson ]

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom. [ Samuel Smiles ]

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. [ Bruyere ]

It is better to keep children to their duty by a sense of honor and by kindness than by fear. [ Terence ]

Clear-sighted reason, wisdom's judgment leads; and sense, her vassal, in her footsteps treads. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above common-sense. [ Locke ]

Good-sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. [ John Dryden ]

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. [ Kant ]

Between good sense and good taste, there is the same difference as that between cause and effect. [ La Bruyère ]

God created out of the clay the knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles even a humble race. [ Bürger ]

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, lie in three words - health, peace, and competence. [ Pope ]

To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. [ Pope ]

Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth. [ Sterne ]

It is important not to keep a business engagement if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. [ Ruskin ]

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman. [ Addison ]

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, - over every idea. [ Latin Proverb ]

Wit is, in general, the finest sense in the world. I had lived long before I discovered that wit was truth. [ Dr. Richard Porson ]

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Nothing under heaven so strongly does allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love bait. [ Spenser ]

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. [ Hare ]

Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures. The sense informs the soul. Whatever you have, have beauty. [ Sydney Smith ]

A man of sense and gravity is less apt to succeed with a fine woman than the gay, the giddy, the flattering coxcomb. [ Henry Home ]

We seldom find persons whom we acknowledge to be possessed of good sense, except those who agree with us in opinion. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Everything ought to lead to good sense; but in order to attain to it, the road is slippery and difficult to walk in. [ Boileau ]

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [ Seneca ]

He that, by often arguing against his own sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself. [ Locke ]

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root. [ Colton ]

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. [ Beaconsfield ]

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression. [ Campbell ]

Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. [ Carlyle ]

The good writer never chooses a word at hazard, or without noting its harmony in sound as well as sense with what precedes and follows. [ Sir Edwin Arnold, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. [ Goethe ]

Fine speeches are the instruments of fools or knaves, who use them when they want good sense; but honesty needs no disguise or ornament. [ Otway ]

He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny is either a man of very ill morals or has no more sense and understanding than a child. [ Menander ]

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest. [ Coleridge ]

What is man but a symbol of God, and all that he does, if not symbolical, a revelation to sense of the mystic God-given force that is in him? [ Carlyle ]

To cultivate the sense of the beautiful is but one, and the most effectual of the ways of cultivating an appreciation of the Divine goodness. [ Bovee ]

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. [ Addison ]

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker. [ R. South ]

A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament, - the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of his dishonor, or him who survives it. [ Junius ]

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. [ Carlyle ]

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There are forty men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. [ Unknown ]

No woman, plain or pretty, has any commonsense at all. Common-sense is the privilege of our sex and we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. [ Feltham ]

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. [ George Washington ]

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed. [ Tillotson ]

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. [ Shenstone ]

The sense of beauty enters into the highest philosophy, as in Plato. The highest poet must be a philosopher, accomplished like Dante, or intuitive like Shakespeare. [ Gladstone ]

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order. [ Hare ]

The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Speak with contempt of no man. Every one hath a tender sense of reputation. And every man hath a sting, which he may, if provoked too far, dart out at one time or other. [ Burton ]

Commonsense in one view is the most uncommon sense. While it is extremely rare in possession, the recognition of it is universal. All men feel it, though few men have it [ H. N. Hudson ]

Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to our defects, and never fails to make us be taken notice of either as wanting sense or wanting sincerity. [ Locke ]

God never pardons: the laws of His universe are irrevocable. God always pardons: sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life. [ William Smith ]

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. [ Emerson ]

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures. [ Pascal ]

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. [ Steele ]

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted. [ Horace Walpole ]

Her hand, in whose comparison all whites are ink writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure the cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense hard as the palm of ploughman! [ William Shakespeare ]

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius. [ Johnson ]

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. [ Addison ]

A good ear for music, and a good taste for music, are two very different things winch are often confounded; and so is comprehending and enjoying every object of sense and sentiment. [ Lord Greville ]

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason. [ Dryden ]

Every man may be, and at some time is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood he strings words like beads upon his thought. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit. [ Bacon ]

Our souls sit close and silently within. And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. [ Dryden ]

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence. [ George Eliot ]

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. [ Emerson ]

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men. [ Carlyle ]

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. [ Frederic Saunders ]

Good dressing includes a suggestion of poetry. One nowhere more quickly detects sentiment than in dress. A well-dressed woman in a room should fill it with poetic sense, like the perfume of flowers. [ Miss Oakey ]

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as commonsense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. [ Hume ]

When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. [ Junius ]

People or Persons? The meaning of people is a body of persons regarded collectively, a nation; hence the obvious inaccuracy of the expression, Many people think so. Persons is preferable in any such sense. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. [ Bovee ]

More marriages are ruined nowadays by the common sense of the husband than by anything else. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Sir Anthony Absolute, two or three years before Evelina appeared, spoke the sense of the great body of sober fathers and husbands when he pronounced the circulating library an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Macaulay ]

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense. And he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. [ Pope ]

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Rely on principles; walk erect and free, not trusting to bulk of body, like a wrestler, for one should not be unconquerable in the sense that an ass is. Who then is unconquerable? He whom the inevitable cannot overcome. [ Epictetus ]

Persuasion, Sect, or Denomination? Persuasion, the definition of which should be plain to every one who speaks English, is often ludicrously used in the sense of sect or denomination; as, He is of the Methodist persuasion. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers, that now and then, from the influence of mood or circumstances, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love. [ H. T. Tuckerman ]

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us; he has inscribed his thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand. [ T. Parker ]

Burke's sentences are pointed at the end, instinct with pungent sense to the last syllable. They are like a charioteer's whip, which not only has a long and effective lash, but cracks and inflicts a still smarter sensation at the end. [ John Foster ]

Another underlying condition of contentment is not to take one's self, or even the affairs of life, too seriously. In looking back, every one can see how much unhappiness has been derived from an over-weening sense of one's importance. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleep; and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. [ Ruskin ]

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down to the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the common sense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. [ Edwin Percy Whipple ]

Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with, - persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day, by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We proudly say we are equal. In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. [ Caroline Hazard ]

Noted or Notorious? As adjectives, these terms are sometimes misused; as, He is a noted criminal. The better word here would be notorious, the meaning of which is restricted to that which is bad; while noted may be used in either a good or a bad sense. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. [ Carlyle ]

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. [ Bacon ]

Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

The man makes the circumstances, and is spiritually as well as economically the artificer of his own fortune, but the man's circumstances are the element he is appointed to live and work in; so that in a no less genuine sense it can be said circumstances make the man. [ Carlyle ]

Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. [ W. P. Scargill ]

Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. [ Keats ]

Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. [ Carlyle ]

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. [ Rochefoucauld ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe. [ Whipple ]

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side. If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]

It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness. [ Johnson ]

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. [ Emerson ]

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]

Paraphernalia, Trappings or Regalia? We often hear paraphernalia used in the sense of trappings or regalia; as, The Grand Marshal was conspicuous in his gorgeous paraphernalia The word is derived from the Greek, and is strictly a law term, meaning whatever the wife brings with her at marriage, in addition to her dower, such as her dresses and her jewels. Hence the evident absurdity of the use of paraphernalia in the sentence cited. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]

A newspaper, like a theatre, must mainly owe its continuance in life to the fact that it pleases many persons; and in order to please many persons it will, unconsciously perhaps, respond to their several tastes, reflect their various qualities, and reproduce their views. In a certain sense it is evolved out of the community that absorbs it, and, therefore, partaking of the character of the community, while it may retain many merits and virtues, it will display itself, as in some respects ignorant, trivial, narrow, and vulgar. [ William Winter ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]

sense in Scrabble®

The word sense is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters sense:

SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word sense

SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(15)
SENSE
(15)
SENSE
(15)
SENSE
(14)
SENSE
(14)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(9)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(6)
SENSE
(6)
SENSE
(6)
SENSE
(5)

The 127 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In sense

SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(15)
SEES
(15)
SEEN
(15)
SENSE
(15)
SENSE
(15)
SEEN
(15)
SEES
(15)
SENSE
(14)
SENSE
(14)
SEES
(12)
SEEN
(12)
SEES
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SEEN
(12)
SEES
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SEEN
(12)
SEEN
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SEES
(12)
SEEN
(10)
SEEN
(10)
SEES
(10)
SEES
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(9)
ENS
(9)
SEE
(9)
ENS
(9)
SEE
(9)
ESS
(9)
ESS
(9)
ENS
(9)
ESS
(9)
SEE
(9)
SEES
(8)
SEES
(8)
SEEN
(8)
SEES
(8)
SEEN
(8)
SEES
(8)
SEEN
(8)
SEEN
(8)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(6)
SEES
(6)
ESS
(6)
SEES
(6)
SEES
(6)
SENSE
(6)
SEES
(6)
SEES
(6)
ESS
(6)
SEEN
(6)
ESS
(6)
ENS
(6)
ENS
(6)
SEES
(6)
ENS
(6)
EN
(6)
SEE
(6)
SEEN
(6)
EN
(6)
SEEN
(6)
SEE
(6)
SEEN
(6)
SEEN
(6)
SEE
(6)
SEEN
(6)
SENSE
(6)
ENS
(5)
ENS
(5)
ENS
(5)
ENS
(5)
SENSE
(5)
ESS
(5)
SEEN
(5)
ESS
(5)
SEEN
(5)
SEEN
(5)
SEES
(5)
SEE
(5)
SEE
(5)
SEE
(5)
SEEN
(5)
SEES
(5)
SEE
(5)
SEES
(5)
ESS
(5)
ESS
(5)
SEES
(5)
EN
(4)
SEEN
(4)
ENS
(4)
EN
(4)
EN
(4)
EN
(4)
ESS
(4)
ENS
(4)
SEE
(4)
SEE
(4)
ENS
(4)
SEE
(4)
SEES
(4)
ESS
(4)
ESS
(4)
EN
(3)
ENS
(3)
SEE
(3)
EN
(3)
ESS
(3)
EN
(2)

sense in Words With Friends™

The word sense is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters sense:

SEEN
(27)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word sense

SENSE
(24)
SENSE
(24)
SENSE
(24)
SENSE
(24)
SENSE
(24)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(16)
SENSE
(16)
SENSE
(14)
SENSE
(14)
SENSE
(14)
SENSE
(14)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(9)
SENSE
(9)
SENSE
(9)
SENSE
(9)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(6)

The 146 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In sense

SEEN
(27)
SENSE
(24)
SENSE
(24)
SENSE
(24)
SENSE
(24)
SENSE
(24)
SEEN
(21)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SENSE
(18)
SEES
(18)
SEES
(18)
SENSE
(16)
SENSE
(16)
SEEN
(15)
SEEN
(15)
SEEN
(15)
SEEN
(15)
SENSE
(14)
SEEN
(14)
SENSE
(14)
SENSE
(14)
SENSE
(14)
SEES
(12)
SEEN
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SEES
(12)
SEES
(12)
SEES
(12)
ENS
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
SENSE
(12)
ENS
(12)
ENS
(12)
SEEN
(11)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SEEN
(10)
SEES
(10)
SEEN
(10)
SEEN
(10)
SEES
(10)
SEEN
(10)
SENSE
(10)
SENSE
(9)
SEEN
(9)
SEEN
(9)
EN
(9)
EN
(9)
ESS
(9)
SENSE
(9)
SEE
(9)
SENSE
(9)
SEE
(9)
ESS
(9)
ESS
(9)
SEE
(9)
SENSE
(9)
SENSE
(8)
SEES
(8)
SEES
(8)
SEES
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(8)
ENS
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SEES
(8)
SEEN
(8)
ENS
(8)
SEES
(8)
ENS
(8)
SEES
(8)
SEEN
(8)
SENSE
(8)
ENS
(8)
ENS
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(8)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SENSE
(7)
SEEN
(7)
SEEN
(7)
SEE
(7)
SEEN
(7)
SEEN
(7)
SEEN
(7)
EN
(7)
ESS
(7)
SENSE
(6)
SEE
(6)
ESS
(6)
ENS
(6)
EN
(6)
SEE
(6)
ESS
(6)
SEE
(6)
EN
(6)
SEEN
(6)
SEES
(6)
SEEN
(6)
SEEN
(6)
ENS
(6)
SEES
(6)
SEES
(6)
SEES
(6)
ENS
(6)
ENS
(6)
SEES
(6)
SEES
(6)
SEES
(6)
ESS
(6)
ENS
(5)
ESS
(5)
ESS
(5)
ESS
(5)
ESS
(5)
SEE
(5)
EN
(5)
SEE
(5)
SEES
(5)
SEE
(5)
SEE
(5)
SEEN
(5)
EN
(5)
SEES
(5)
SEES
(5)
SEES
(5)
ENS
(5)
EN
(4)
ENS
(4)
SEE
(4)
ESS
(4)
ESS
(4)
ESS
(4)
SEE
(4)
SEE
(4)
SEES
(4)
ESS
(3)
SEE
(3)
EN
(3)

Words containing the sequence sense

Words that start with sense (6 words)

Word Growth involving sense

Shorter words in sense

en ens

Longer words containing sense

antisense

biosense biosensed

biosense biosenses

commonsense

mechanosense mechanosensed

mechanosense mechanosenses

nonsense nonsenses

photosense photosensed

photosense photosenses

sensed biosensed

sensed mechanosensed

sensed photosensed

sensed positionsensed

senseless senselessly

senseless senselessness

senses biosenses

senses mechanosenses

senses nonsenses

senses photosenses