sense
feeling or perception
Root
- sent / sens: feel, sense, perceive, or think
Other words with the sent / sens root
- dissent: to disagree or hold a different opinion
- insensible: unable to feel, notice, or respond
- sensation: a feeling or perception
- sensational: exciting, dramatic, or meant to stir feeling
- sentiment: feeling or opinion
- sentimental: too strongly shaped by tender feeling
Sense is the familiar doorway into sent / sens: feeling or perceiving that something is there.
A good example gave her a sense of how the word moved.