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something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living. The Oxford English Dictionary defines ikigai as "a motivating force; something...

As examples of perceiving by accident Aristotle mentions using the specific sense perception vision on its own to try to see that something is sweet, or...

value, whereas its sense is the thought that it expresses. Frege justified the distinction in a number of ways. Sense is something possessed by a name...

A sense of impending doom is a medical symptom that consists of an intense feeling that something life threatening or tragic is about to occur, despite...

sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli...

perspective, groove has been described as "an unspecifiable but ordered sense of something that is sustained in a distinctive, regular and attractive way, working...

during the last hot period of the Cold War, two Russian cosmonauts engaged in an orbital research mission experienced something inexplicable while returning...

still appear anomalous and give a sense of something having been destroyed. Forbidding Blocks A network of hundreds of house-sized stone blocks, dyed black...

be stopped without the sense of something (the rhyme scheme) broken or unfinished. The rhymes of terza rima add the effect of echo and expectation — as...

appeared in modern English for the first time and was used in the sense of "something accursed". The "consecrated object" meaning was also adopted a short...

healing of the situation. Focusing is set apart from other methods of inner awareness by three qualities: something called the "felt sense", a quality of engaged...

of scientific fields and industries, where it is often specifically defined. It may also be applied colloquially or figuratively, with a broad sense....

a sense of something that's happening on a large scale, but we felt that all of the elements that we had issues with prior, when we see any kind of disaster...

reconstituted some of that in a special (TV) release version. The sense of something being missing on Aliens was greater for me than on The Abyss, where...

they are not alone in seeking a sense of something deeper in their lives. Coppola, speaking about the brief nature of their encounter, remarked, "For...

laugh at something funny (such as a pun or joke)—and thus are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would...

deep way of getting a sense of something takes time. It doesn't show itself to you right away. It isn't even necessary to know the names of things the...

disturbances in the wider city, hence the name – "close" in the sense of "something enclosed". It usually included buildings housing diocesan offices...

be ridiculed. Traditional definitions of parody usually only discuss parody in the stricter sense of something intended to ridicule the text it parodies...

barca. The use of the diminutive suffix -etta, the feminine form of -etto, confers the sense of something small or tiny with a connotation of endearment or...