sixth-sense

verb

To perceive or intuit through a sixth sense.

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Meanings

verbsixth-sense (third-person singular simple present sixth-senses, present participle sixth-sensing, simple past and past participle sixth-sensed)

present singular third person sixth-senses · participle present sixth-sensing · participle past sixth-sensed · past sixth-sensed

  1. To perceive or intuit through a sixth sense.

    Dorothy had sixth-sensed this question before the speaker had finished, and was ready with her reply[.]

    1891, Mary E. Buell, The Sixth Sense, Or, Electricity: A Story for the Masses, Boston: Colby and Rich, page 189
    1 more example

    The subjective and the inevitable are in perfect balance, what is solidly established in bathed in an element that is completely sixth-sensed[.]

    1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xx
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