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Englishsixth sense
Meaning: A feeling, intuition or premonition not based on one of the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, or smell.
Example: “Mothers seem to have a sixth sense for when their kids are up to something.”
Origin: The five senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch have been counted since Aristotle. Speaking of a "sixth sense" for intuition, an extra way of perceiving things the others miss, became common in English in the 19th century.
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