Sense vs Mental - What's the difference?
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(senseid) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)
(senseid)Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Philip Sidney)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)
(senseid)Sound practical or moral judgment.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (w, L'Estrange)
(senseid)The meaning, reason, or value of something.
* Bible, Neh. viii. 8
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)
(senseid)A natural appreciation or ability.
(senseid)(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
(senseid)(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
(senseid) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
To instinctively be aware.
To comprehend.
Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
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, title= Insane, mad, crazy.
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Enjoyable; fun.
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(lb) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
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(lb) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.
As an adjective sense
is sensible, rational.As a noun mental is
moron.sense
English
Noun
(en noun)- Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
- What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
- a sense of security
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
- high disdain from sense of injured merit
- It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
- You don’t make any sense .
- the true sense of words or phrases
- So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense .
- I think 'twas in another sense .
- A keen musical sense
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* sense of smell (see olfaction) * (l)See also
* business sense * common sense * sixth sense * sight / vision * hearing / audition * taste / gustation * smell / olfaction * touch / tactition * thermoception * nociception * equilibrioception * proprioceptionVerb
(sens)- She immediately sensed her disdain.
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(wikipedia mental)Adjective
(-)Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
