| sens | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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| sensate | (adjective) having physical sensation | - |
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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 | - |
| sensational | (adjective) causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned in sensation | Synonyms: sensory |
| (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: arresting, stunning |
| 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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| sensationalistic | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, yellow |
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| sensationally | (adverb) in a sensational manner | - |
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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 |
| (verb) discern | - |
| (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: smell, smell out |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) detect some circumstance or entity automatically | - |
| sensed | (adjective) detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | Synonyms: perceived |
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| senseless | (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: nitwitted, soft-witted, witless |
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| (adjective) unresponsive to stimulation | Synonyms: insensible, out of it |
| (adjective) not marked by the use of reason | Synonyms: mindless, reasonless |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, purposeless, superfluous, wasted |
| senselessly | (adverb) in an unreasonably senseless manner | Synonyms: mindlessly |
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| (adverb) in a meaningless and purposeless manner | - |
| senselessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, vacuity |
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| sensibilise | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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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 | - |
| sensibilize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensible | (adjective) able to feel or perceive | Synonyms: sensitive |
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| (adjective) showing reason or sound judgment | Synonyms: reasonable |
| (adjective) aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed | - |
| (adjective) readily perceived by the senses | - |
| sensibleness | (noun) the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment | - |
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| sensibly | (adverb) with good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner | Synonyms: reasonably, sanely |
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| sensify | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensitise, sensitize |
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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 |
| sensitise | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitize |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitize |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitize |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitize |
| sensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| sensitiser | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitizer |
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| sensitising | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitizing |
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| (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
| sensitive | (adjective) responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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| (adjective) being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others | - |
| (adjective) able to feel or perceive | Synonyms: sensible |
| (adjective) of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security | - |
| (adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sore, tender |
| (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
| sensitively | (adverb) in a sensitive manner | - |
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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 |
| sensitize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitise |
| sensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| sensitizer | (noun) (chemistry) a substance other than a catalyst that facilitates the start of a catalytic reaction | Synonyms: sensitiser |
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| sensitizing | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitising |
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| (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitising, sensitization |
| 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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| sensorial | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | Synonyms: sensory |
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| sensorimotor | (adjective) of or relating to the sensory and motor coordination of an organism or to the controlling nerves | - |
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| sensorineural | (adjective) of or relating to the neural process of sensation | - |
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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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| sensory | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | Synonyms: sensorial |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned in sensation | Synonyms: sensational |
| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: centripetal, receptive |
| sensual | (adjective) sexually exciting or gratifying | Synonyms: sultry |
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| (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, carnal, fleshly |
| sensualise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualize |
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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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| sensualize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualise |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: carnalize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: carnalize |
| sensually | (adverb) in a sultry and sensual manner | Synonyms: sultrily |
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| sensualness | (noun) desire for sensual pleasures | Synonyms: sensualism, sensuality |
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| sensuous | (adjective) taking delight in beauty | - |
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| sensuously | (adverb) with aesthetic gratification or delight | - |
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| sensuousness | (noun) a sensuous feeling | - |
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