sen | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel | - |
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senate | (noun) assembly possessing high legislative powers | - |
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senator | (noun) a member of a senate | - |
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senatorship | (noun) the office of senator | - |
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sendee | (noun) the intended recipient of a message | - |
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sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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(noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
sending | (noun) the act of causing something to go (especially messages) | - |
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sendup | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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sene | (noun) 100 sene equal 1 tala in Western Samoa | - |
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senega | (noun) perennial bushy herb of central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest; similar to Seneca snakeroot | Synonyms: Polygala alba |
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(noun) dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin | - |
senescence | (noun) the property characteristic of old age | Synonyms: agedness |
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(noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
seneschal | (noun) the chief steward or butler of a great household | Synonyms: major-domo |
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senility | (noun) the state of being senile | - |
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(noun) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations | Synonyms: dotage, second childhood |
senior | (noun) an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation | - |
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(noun) a person who is older than you are | Synonyms: elder |
senioritis | (noun) tiredness with the final year of high school | - |
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seniority | (noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: longevity |
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(noun) higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service | Synonyms: higher rank, higher status, senior status |
seniti | (noun) 100 seniti equal 1 pa'anga in Tonga | - |
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senna | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Senna having pinnately compound leaves and showy usually yellow flowers; many are used medicinally | - |
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sennit | (noun) flat braided cordage that is used on ships | - |
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senpai | (noun) someone who is older or other superior to the speaker | - |
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sens | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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sensation | (noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation | Synonyms: aesthesis, esthesis, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
(noun) a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest | - |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
(noun) a state of widespread public excitement and interest | - |
sensationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricism, empiricist philosophy |
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(noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensualism |
(noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: luridness |
(noun) subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes | - |
sensationalist | (noun) someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention | Synonyms: ballyhoo artist |
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sense | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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(noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit |
(noun) a general conscious awareness | - |
(noun) a natural appreciation or ability | - |
(noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: signified |
senselessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, vacuity |
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sensibility | (noun) mental responsiveness and awareness | Synonyms: aesthesia, esthesia |
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(noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensitiveness, sensitivity |
(noun) refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions | - |
sensibleness | (noun) the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment | - |
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sensing | (noun) becoming aware of something via the senses | Synonyms: perception |
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(noun) the perception that something has occurred or some state exists | Synonyms: detection |
sensitisation | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitising, sensitization, sensitizing |
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(noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitization |
(noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitization |
sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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sensitising | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
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sensitive | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
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sensitiveness | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitivity |
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(noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitivity |
(noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitivity |
(noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitivity |
sensitivity | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
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(noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
(noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitiveness |
(noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitiveness |
(noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: predisposition |
sensitization | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitizing |
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(noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
(noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen) | Synonyms: sensitisation |
sensitizer | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitiser |
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sensitizing | (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization |
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sensitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the light sensitivity of film over a range of exposures | - |
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sensor | (noun) any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner | Synonyms: detector, sensing element |
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sensorium | (noun) the areas of the brain that process and register incoming sensory information and make possible the conscious awareness of the world | - |
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sensualism | (noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensationalism |
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(noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensuality, sensualness |
sensualist | (noun) a person who enjoys sensuality | - |
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sensuality | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensualness |
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sensualness | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensuality |
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sensuousness | (noun) a sensuous feeling | - |
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sent | (noun) 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia | - |
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sente | (noun) 100 lisente equal 1 loti in Lesotho; one sente is worth one-hundredth of a loti | - |
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sentence | (noun) (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | Synonyms: condemnation, conviction, judgment of conviction |
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(noun) a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language | - |
(noun) the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned | Synonyms: prison term, time |
sentience | (noun) the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | - |
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(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentiency |
(noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: awareness |
sentiency | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience |
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sentiment | (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, thought, view |
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(noun) tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion | - |
sentimentalisation | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, romanticization, sentimentalization |
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sentimentalism | (noun) a predilection for sentimentality | - |
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(noun) the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form | - |
sentimentalist | (noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: romanticist |
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sentimentality | (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sloppiness, soupiness |
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(noun) extravagant or affected feeling or emotion | - |
sentimentalization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, romanticization, sentimentalisation |
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sentinel | (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentry, spotter, watch |
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sentry | (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, spotter, watch |
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