sense

sense [-s] n

Fr. < L. 'perception, feeling'.

1. Reason; mind; mental stability; ability to feel; faculties of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and so forth.
2. Sanity; lucidity; order; rationality; [fig.] insight; inspiration.
3. Significance; meaning; intimation; definition; [word play] sensory perception from the physical world.
4. One's body; physical being; perception of the material world.
5. Being; consciousness; identity.