The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - sense n.

1) faculty: It's not always easy to tell if Brown's senses are all functioning. 2) common sense, intelligence, perception, quick-wittedness, quickness, (mother) wit, judgement, reason, wisdom, sagacity, discrimination, discernment; sanity, Colloq brains, Slang Brit nous: Fancy doing something like that! - she hasn't the sense she was born with! 3 See sensation, 1, above. 4 meaning, intelligibility, coherence, head or tail, drift, gist, import, purport, nuance, significance, message, substance: I was unable to get any sense out of what she was saying. Yes, I wasn't able to make sense out of it either. 5) sentiment, atmosphere, impression, intuition, sensation: I had a sense of being de trop - that I was not wanted. --v. 6) feel, perceive, detect, divine, intuit, have a hunch or feeling, have or get or be under the impression that, suspect, Colloq have a funny feeling that, feel (something) in one's bones, pick up: I sensed a certain antagonism in that last remark. I sensed that he was getting bored with me.