SENSES Synonyms: 141 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of sense

as in feelings

an indefinite physical response to a stimulus a strange sense of discomfort brought on by the room's strong colors

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as in meanings

the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action got the general sense of the poem

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senses

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verb

present tense third-person singular of sense

as in smells

to have a vague awareness of the deer seemed to sense danger

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as in knows

to have a clear idea of I did not sense the full meaning of his cryptic warning until much later

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Recent Examples of senses

Noun

Inside a training apartment on-site, specialists taught Darnes how to navigate daily life using touch, sound, bump dots, and his remaining senses. — La'tasha Givens, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Each step sends a ripple through the spongy, thin mat, a slow undulating motion beneath your feet that surprises the senses, disorienting yet simultaneously strangely delightful. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 This may mean experiencing a familiar landscape from a completely different angle, seeing it through the eyes of a local, or engaging with it through the senses. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 The primary effects generally wear off in less than an hour, but a person’s senses may remain dulled and their judgment and coordination impaired for several hours afterward. — Christopher P. Holstege, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2026 The two barely speak, but La Parda senses that Lucía is hiding something. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 When our skin senses heat, those signals travel to a primitive part of the brain that tells our body to cool down. — Will Stone, NPR, 5 Oct. 2026 The senses of anyone entering these tombs were heavily manipulated. — Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026 Your spidey-senses start tingling as the game winds down, and something just tells you to start rolling the camera. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026

Verb

Pictures and video are only captured when the camera senses a vehicle going 10 miles per hour or more above the speed limit. — Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 One of her governesses, Leonora, usually keen to practice corporal punishment on nonconforming children, senses this spark in Adelaide and tries to snuff it out for the child’s benefit. — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 The camera handles sight, and the phone's inertial measurement unit (IMU), a chip that senses tilt and motion, works like an inner ear for balance. — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2026 Marketing already senses it and is reaching for the wrong tool. — Richard Freisberg, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 There’s something within Cathy that Charles senses within himself, some capacity for darkness Adam doesn’t naturally possess. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026 Though one senses her powers of persuasion are being misused at this corporate advertising agency. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026 Made from porous nickel pyrophosphate (Ni2P2O7), an advanced nanomaterial, the memristor senses humidity and mimics functions associated with biological memory. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026 Yet Williams senses an opportunity to color outside the lines, to hunt a big play to one of his favorite targets. — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for senses

Noun

Who would want the callous world that successfully cloistered the feelings of others?

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Seyfried gets defensive about this, grappling with her own complicated feelings about playing a real person on film.

— Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The expression has different meanings across cultures, rarely referring to its literal translation.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Carlson’s essay offers a deeper look at the elaborate symbolic language surrounding 22, A Million, including the meanings behind the album’s unusual song titles and iconography.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of meanings

Verb

That’s reflected in the clips shown to the audience, which, unlike the previous films, really gives the sense that this place smells.

— Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2026
The candle smells of cereal, milk and lemon and is intended to recall the days of watching Saturday morning cartoons and summer.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of smells

Noun

Many state wiretap and eavesdropping laws are written around whether a private communication was intercepted or its contents were acquired — not simply whether a conventional audio recording was created.

— MacKenzie Sigalos,Annie Palmer, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026
In late September, video showed Wang going through the victim’s desk before picking up his coffee tin, opening and inspecting its contents, the police affidavit said.

— Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of contents

Verb

Having dressed numerous actresses throughout her career, Chiuri sees a shift in red carpet culture toward individualized creations and, more recently, greater restraint.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
Her firm sees the Indian currency trading around 97 per US dollar by end-2026 and at 98 rupees by mid-2027.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026