sense
noun
any of the faculties, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body.
half-sensed
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a word derived from
sense.
Example Sentences
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A ceaseless roil of shadowy impressions fleeting and half-sensed, the piece is one of Carter’s grandest, most poetic achievements.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2013
By getting to know more and more aspects of his unconscious, the subject can give proper values to what were once half-sensed and disturbing urges.
From Time Magazine Archive
My mother sort of half-sensed who I was.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Teddy tucked away for the night, she would dream over a half-sensed book.
From Martie, the Unconquered by Kathleen Thompson Norris
Yet already a vague, half-sensed uneasiness had begun to creep over him--not yet a definite presentiment of disaster, but rather a subconscious feeling that the odds against him were too great.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
