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sixth sense
noun
a power of perception beyond the five senses; intuition.
His sixth sense warned him to be cautious.
sixth sense
noun
any supposed sense or means of perception, such as intuition or clairvoyance, other than the five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell
Word History and Origins
Origin of sixth sense1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
“Well,” Squire said while everyone around him groaned, “I guess I have a sixth sense.”
Milo says he and his colleagues have long believed that numbers can “provide a sixth sense of the world.”
“Just by small little signals on their face they’re making. It just becomes like a sixth sense.”
Research on the gut-brain connection, also known as the “sixth sense,” has increased in recent years, and is helping to explain why we get satisfaction from particular foods and flavors.
In fact, you might mistake him for any other tattooed, spiky-haired dude in his hometown of Las Vegas, if not for his sixth sense and his bouts of possession caught on tape.
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