sense
/sɛns/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.19 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep."
- "What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate."
- "Sight, hearing, and touch have been well explored, but the sense of smell has remained elusive, due in large measure to a lack of basic information."
- "a sense of security"
- "this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover"
- "high disdain from sense of injured merit"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, perception, direction”); partly from Latin sēnsus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn ("reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"; whence also Dutch zin, German Sinn, Swedish sinne, Norwegian sinn). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).