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sixth sense en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. 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. 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in At the Earth's Core:
   • What can he know of catalepsy, and thought-transference and the sixth sense of fish, of birds, of negroes; the deadly meaning of a white chicken's feather, a crossed stick in the road, a little leather bag of bones and herbs? 1954, Ian Fleming, “Allumeuse”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 108:
   • What Ghaznavi had considered animal intuition or some sixth sense was merely the razor-edged faculties and savage wit of the barbarian. 1934 August, Robert E. Howard, The Devil in Iron, Chapter IV, published in Weird Tales
   • 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. 1919, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], →OCLC:

Forms

Relateds

five senses

Synonyms

second sight

Translations (25)

uk шосте чуття (extrasensory perception) · yue 第六感 (extrasensory perception) · hu hatodik érzék (extrasensory perception) · fi kuudes aisti (extrasensory perception) · tr altıncı duyu (extrasensory perception) · no sjette sans (extrasensory perception) · cmn 第六感 (extrasensory perception) · my ဆဋ္ဌမအာရုံ (extrasensory perception) · tr önsezi (extrasensory perception) · nl zesde zintuig (extrasensory perception) · da sjette sans (extrasensory perception) · pl szósty zmysł (extrasensory perception) · fr sixième sens (extrasensory perception) · ja 第六感 (extrasensory perception) · de sechster Sinn (extrasensory perception) · sv sjätte sinne (extrasensory perception) · ca sisè sentit (extrasensory perception) · pt sexto sentido (extrasensory perception) · fa حس ششم (extrasensory perception) · hsb šesty zmysł (extrasensory perception) · it sesto senso (extrasensory perception) · es sexto sentido (extrasensory perception) · tr altıncı his (extrasensory perception) · ru шесто́е чу́вство (extrasensory perception) · cs šestý smysl (extrasensory perception)