• 1. any of the faculties by which the mind receives information about the external world or about the state of the body. In addition to the five traditional faculties of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, the term includes the means by which bodily position, temperature, pain, balance, etc, are perceived
• 2. such faculties collectively; the ability to perceive
• 3. a feeling perceived through one of the senses
• 4. a mental perception or awareness
• 5. moral discernment; understanding
• 6. sound...

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