senses

Synonyms

meaning reason consciousness faculty rationality signified sanity soundness signification lucidity sentience intellection sensate smell out mother wit
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Antonyms

personality disorder second childhood

Phrases with the word

take leave of one's senses come back to one's senses come to one's senses coming to one's senses bring someone back to their senses peripheral senses

Examples

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. Ludwig van Beethoven

With the eye in a natural state sight follows necessarily ... In the same way the life of blessedness is as a familiar second nature to those who have kept clear the senses of the soul. Gregory of Nyssa

I consider it absurd that we should permit our senses to sate themselves without hindrance with their own material food, but that we should exclude the mind alone from its own particular activity. Basil of Caesarea

Seven women in their right senses are surpassed by a mad man. Maltese Proverb

The palm-wine we drink, some people can drink it and remain wise; others lose all their senses. African Proverb

To whom God gives an office, adds also senses to it. Hungarian Proverb