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Taste, smell, touch, hearing, seeing.

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Usage examples (35)
  • Love is the poetry of the senses.
  • Wired for sound: How the brain senses visual illusions
  • She's frightened by what she senses is happening to her.
  • Amateurs -- in the laudable and the pejorative senses of the word.
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  • I hope he'll come to his "senses" (the faculties of sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste) before the "census" (count of the population).
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