sixth sense

English

WOTD – 1 August 2011

Etymology

Adding to the traditional five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sixth sense (plural sixth senses)

1. Extrasensory perception; the ability to sense things by means other than the known bodily senses.

   Synonym: second sight

   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in At the Earth's Core:

     Among themselves they communicate by means of what Perry says must be a sixth sense which is cognizant of a fourth dimension.

   • 1919, Joseph Conrad, chapter 3, in The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], →OCLC:

     Luckily, on evidence which I could never understand, Dominic detected something suspicious. Perhaps it was by virtue of some sixth sense that men born for unlawful occupations may be gifted with.

   • 1934 August, Robert E. Howard, The Devil in Iron, Chapter IV, published in Weird Tales:

     What Ghaznavi had considered animal intuition or some sixth sense was merely the razor-edged faculties and savage wit of the barbarian.

Translations

extrasensory perception

• Burmese: ဆဋ္ဌမအာရုံ (hcathta.ma.arum)
• Catalan: sisè sentit m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 第六感 (dai⁶ luk⁶ gam²)

  Mandarin: 第六感 (zh) (dìliùgǎn)

• Czech: šestý smysl m
• Danish: sjette sans
• Dutch: zesde zintuig
• Finnish: kuudes aisti (fi)
• French: sixième sens (fr) m
• German: sechster Sinn m
• Hungarian: hatodik érzék (hu)
• Italian: sesto senso (it) m
• Japanese: 第六感 (だいろっかん, dairokkan)
• Norwegian: sjette sans m
• Persian: حس ششم (hess-e šešom)
• Polish: szósty zmysł (pl) m
• Portuguese: sexto sentido m
• Russian: шесто́е чу́вство (ru) n (šestóje čúvstvo)
• Spanish: sexto sentido m
• Swedish: sjätte sinne n
• Turkish: altıncı his (tr), altıncı duyu (tr), önsezi (tr)
• Ukrainian: шосте чуття n (šoste čuttja)
• Upper Sorbian: šesty zmysł m

See also

• five senses