Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")

All of the words on this list derive from the Latin verb sentire, "to feel."

Here are links to the complete set of Common Senses lists:
Hearing: Phon / Aud / Son
Sight: Vid, Vis / Spec, Spect, Spic / Op, Ops, Opt
Touch: Path / Sent, Sens / Tact, Tang
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  1. sensitive
    responsive to physical stimuli
    This ensured that any animals sensitive to heat would be unaware of its presence. Artemis Fowl
  2. desensitize
    cause to be less responsive to or affected by something
    Some studies have shown that exposing children to increasing doses of peanuts can desensitize them, but few big trials have been done. Science Magazine (Jan 29, 2014)
  3. insensate
    devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation
    Seriously frostbitten, lying insensate in his tent, at least for the time being he was unable even to speak. Into Thin Air
  4. sensation
    an awareness of some type of stimulation
    The girls complained of backache from bed-making, and fiery sensations in their feet from standing all day. Atonement
  5. sensuous
    providing perceptible pleasure or gratification
    “Mother was an extremely intelligent person. Quite sensuous, in many ways.” Nine Stories
  6. sensible
    aware intuitively or intellectually of something felt
    We are all sensible of it; it needs no words to communicate it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
  7. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
    "Some politicians seek consensus, and others prefer their 'dividing lines'. BBC (Apr 14, 2014)
  8. assent
    agreement with a statement or proposal to do something
    And as folks tend to do when caught up in the fever of a crowd, you’ll probably find yourself smiling and nodding assent. New York Times (May 1, 2014)
  9. consent
    give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
    He kept back his resentment and impatience, and tried to be obedient, so that Ogion would consent at last to teach him something. A Wizard of Earthsea
  10. dissent
    be of different opinions
    Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, dissenting from the other six judges, argued that such injuries belonged in civil court under libel law. New York Times (May 13, 2014)
  11. sentiment
    tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion
    However, we must not allow sentiment to creep into our judgement. The Remains of the Day
  12. presentiment
    a feeling of evil to come
    When I drew near the house, an indescribable presentiment of evil seemed to possess me,—one of those prophetic warnings, so common, but yet such a psychological mystery. Lindley, Augustus F.
  13. sentient
    endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
    Neanderthals, it is said, were hairy beasts—more creature than man, more brutish than sentient, more nose than brain. Washington Post
  14. sentinel
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
    And the leader posted armed sentinels at the fringes of the group. The Alchemist
  15. sententious
    abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
    "Nothing’s worth while but what’s difficult," said Jackson with a sententious ring that quite distressed his mate. James, Henry
Created on Tue May 27 21:38:26 EDT 2014 (updated Tue Aug 20 14:45:16 EDT 2019)

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