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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A power of perception seemingly independent of the five senses; keen intuition.
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- noun
Extrasensory perception ; the ability to sense things by means other than the known bodily senses.
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- noun grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
Etymologies
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Refers to a sense different from the standard bodily senses, of which traditionally there are five: touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing.
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