noun
1.
any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body:
My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
2.
these faculties collectively.
3.
their operation or function; sensation.
4.
a feeling or perception produced through the organs of touch, taste, etc., or resulting from a particular condition of some part of the body:
to have a sense of cold.
5.
a faculty or function of the mind analogous to sensation:
the moral sense.
6.
any special capacity for perception, estimation, appreciation, etc.:
a sense of humor.
7.
Usually, senses. clear and sound mental faculties; sanity:
Have you taken leave of your senses?