Phrase Hound found 79 phrases and 32 compound words that contain sense. The most common are listed below. Open sense in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 79
- make senseTo be sensible, coherent, reasonable.
- common senseOrdinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.
- sense of timeThe perception and awareness of the passage of time
- good senseCommon sense; sensibleness.
- sense of humourA person’s faculty for finding certain things funny.
- makes sensethird-person singular simple present indicative of make sense: To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.
- sense of placeA feeling of authentic human attachment and belonging to place.
- sense of directionAn ability to navigate.
- sense of humorUS standard spelling of sense of humour.
- making sensepresent participle and gerund of make sense
- game senseOne's ability to understand a sport or competitive video game at a strategic level; situational awareness.
- horse senseCommon sense, especially with a connotation of folk wisdom that trumps formal education.
- Perfect Sense
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception; the ability to sense things by means other than the known bodily senses.
- non-senseAlternative spelling of nonsense: Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- made sensesimple past and past participle of make sense
- sense organAn organic sensor.
- Business sense
- time senseAn ability to sense the passage of time and to estimate and compare its intervals.
- see senseRealize the error in what one is thinking or doing.
- Spidey-senseAlternative spelling of Spidey sense.
- positive senseOf an RNA strand, able to serve directly as messenger RNA and be transcribed into DNA.
- sense dataplural of sense datum: A mind-dependent object whose existence and properties are known directly to human beings in perception.
- spider senseAlternative form of Spidey sense
- fashion senseKnowledge of how to dress fashionably.
Compound words 32
- nonsenseLetters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
- sensicalThat makes sense; showing internal logic; rational, sensible.
- senselyOf, pertaining to, or perceived by sense or the senses; sensory; sensual; sensible.
- SensurroundAn audio process for motion pictures using low-frequency sound to produce physical sensations in an audience.
- countersenseAn opposite meaning.
- aftersenseA perception that follows an experience; a subsequent sense.
- sensefulFull of sense; meaningful; significant.
- pansensismThe closely allied forms of panpsychism espoused by the Italian Renaissance philosophers Bernardino Telesio (1509–1588) and Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639), in which all things are capable of perception or sensation.
- sensiveHaving sense or sensibility; sensitive or sensory.
- sensestsecond-person singular simple present indicative of sense