sixth sense

noun

Etymology

Adding to the traditional five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing.

Definitions

  1. Extrasensory perception

    Extrasensory perception; the ability to sense things by means other than the known bodily senses.

    • Among themselves they communicate by means of what Perry says must be a sixth sense which is cognizant of a fourth dimension.
    • Luckily, on evidence which I could never understand, Dominic detected something suspicious. Perhaps it was by virtue of some sixth sense that men born for unlawful occupations may be gifted with.
    • What Ghaznavi had considered animal intuition or some sixth sense was merely the razor-edged faculties and savage wit of the barbarian.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sixth sense. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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