time sense

noun

An ability to sense the passage of time and to estimate and compare its intervals.

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Meanings

nountime sense (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesAn ability to sense the passage of time and to estimate and compare its intervals.

    Pathetic as its passing is, one cannot honestly regret the old school. I was looking last night at the programme of my very first hall, and received a terrible shock to my time-sense. Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are the entertainers of 1895?

    1915, Thomas Burke, “An Entertainment Night: Round the Halls”, in Nights in Town: A London Autobiography, London: George Allen & Unwin […], page 44
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