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Idiom SIXTH SENSE
Definition a feeling, intuition or premonition not based on one of the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, or smell
Examples
  1. Carrie has an uncanny sense of what’s going to happen in the future. It’s almost as though she has a sixth sense.
  2. They had a terrible feeling that something bad had happened to their son. They had no rational reason for thinking it; it was just a sixth sense.
Extra Info

The expression originates from the idea that, whereas everyone is born with the five senses of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell, some people seem to have an additional sense that enables them to perceive events or things that others cannot.

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