sixth-sense
sixth-sense verb: to perceive or intuit through a sixth sense.
Verb
sixth-sense (third-person singular simple present sixth-senses, present participle sixth-sensing, simple past and past participle sixth-sensed)
- 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
- 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
Forms of sixth-sense
| third-person singular present | sixth-senses |
|---|---|
| present participle | sixth-sensing |
| past participle | sixth-sensed |
| past | sixth-sensed |
Questions about sixth-sense
- What does sixth-sense mean?
- Sixth-sense means to perceive or intuit through a sixth sense.
- What part of speech is sixth-sense?
- Sixth-sense is a verb.
- What is the past tense of sixth-sense?
- The past tense of sixth-sense is sixth-sensed.
Words near sixth-sense in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sixth-sense (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “sixth-sense.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sixth-sense. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.