the physical abilities of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste
She stared at him again, unable to believe the evidence of her senses.
2.
sound practical judgment or intelligence
Have you taken leave of your senses?
3. come to one's senses
4. come to one's senses/bring someone to their senses
5. have taken leave of one's senses
Examples of 'senses' in a sentence
senses
Her senses sharpened, pupils expanding, nostrils keen to the scent of aniseed.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
Not only could I not see, it dulled all my other senses, too.
Fraser, Anthea PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW (2002)
All related terms of 'senses'
sense
Your senses are the physical abilities of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste.
road sense
the ability to be a safe driver or pedestrian
come to one's senses
to regain consciousness
common sense
Your common sense is your natural ability to make good judgments and to behave in a practical and sensible way.
dress sense
Someone's dress sense is their ability to choose clothes that make them look attractive .
horse sense
common sense
moral sense
the ability to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions
muscle sense
→ kinesthesia
sixth sense
If you say that someone has a sixth sense , you mean that they seem to have a natural ability to know about things before other people, or to know things that other people do not know.
fashion sense
a sense of style
bring someone to their senses
to cause someone to become reasonable after being foolish
take leave of one's senses
to go mad or become irrational
have taken leave of one's senses
If you say that someone seems to have taken leave of their senses , you mean that they have done or said something very foolish.
kinaesthesia
the sensation by which bodily position, weight, muscle tension , and movement are perceived
come to one's senses/bring someone to their senses
If you say that someone has come to their senses or has been brought to their senses , you mean that they have stopped being foolish and are being sensible again.
humour
You can refer to the amusing things that people say as their humour .