sense
/icons/point.icon SENSE, COMMON SENSE, JUDGMENT, WISDOM mean ability to reach intelligent conclusions.
SENSE implies a reliable ability to judge and decide with soundness, prudence, and intelligence.
e.g. a choice showing good sense
COMMON SENSE suggests an average degree of such ability without sophistication or special knowledge.
e.g. common sense tells me it's wrong
JUDGMENT implies sense tempered and refined by experience, training, and maturity.
e.g. they relied on her judgment for guidance
WISDOM implies sense and judgment far above average.
e.g. a leader of rare wisdom
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noun
1. a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch:
感覚(機能), 五感(の1つ), 肉体感覚; 官能(→ sensitive)
e.g. the bear has a keen sense of smell that enables it to hunt at dusk.
2. a feeling that something is the case:
価値, 意義, 意味(point); (もっともだと思われる)理由, 道理(reason)
e.g. she had the sense of being a political outsider.
an awareness or feeling that one is in a specified state:
〖通例one's ～s〗 意識; 正気, 本性, 本心
e.g. you can improve your general health and sense of well-being.
(sense of) a keen intuitive awareness of or sensitivity to the presence or importance of something:
〖時にa ～〗 (生まれながらの)感じる, 知る, わかる, 判別する力, 心, 感覚, センス(→ taste)
e.g. she had a fine sense of comic timing.
3. a sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems:
«…する» 分別(のあること), 思慮, 良識 «to do» ; 判断力(→ sensible)
e.g. he earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings.
a reasonable or comprehensible rationale:
〖通例単数形で〗 «…という» (漠然とした)感覚, 感じ(sensation); 意識, 心持ち, 気持ち(feeling) «that節» (↓ 表現 )
e.g. I can't see the sense in leaving all the work to you.
4. a way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning:
〖通例単数形で〗(語･句の)意味, 語義(→ meaning)
e.g. it is not clear which sense of the word “characters” is intended in this passage.
5. chiefly Mathematics & Physics 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.
as modifier Genetics relating to or denoting a coding sequence of nucleotides, complementary to an antisense sequence.
verb with object
perceive by a sense or senses:
(漠然と)〈事〉に感づく, 気づく; 〖～(that)節/wh節〗 …ということを, …かを感づく; 〖～ A do/doing〗 Aが…する, …しているのを感づく
e.g. with the first frost, they could sense a change in the days.
be aware of:
e.g. she could sense her father's anger rising.
with clause be aware that something is the case without being able to define exactly how one knows:
e.g. he could sense that he wasn't liked.
(of a machine or similar device) detect:
〈機械などが〉〈事〉を感知, 探知する; 〖～ wh節〗 …かを感知する.
e.g. an optical fiber senses a current flowing in a conductor.
PHRASES
bring someone to their (or come to one's) senses
restore someone to (or regain) consciousness.
cause someone to (or start to) think and behave reasonably after a period of folly or irrationality.
in a (or one) sense
used to indicate a particular interpretation of a statement or situation:
e.g. in a sense, behavior cannot develop independently of the environment.
in one's senses
fully aware and in control of one's thoughts and words; sane:
e.g. would any man in his senses invent so absurd a story?
make sense
be intelligible, justifiable, or practicable.
make sense of
find meaning or coherence in:
e.g. she must try to make sense of what was going on.
out of one's senses
in or into a state of insanity.
take leave of one's senses
(in hyperbolic use) go insane.
ORIGIN
late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘meaning’): from Latin sensus ‘faculty of feeling, thought, meaning’, from sentire ‘feel’. The verb dates from the mid 16th century.