| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The condition of being aware: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, perception. See KNOWLEDGE. 2. The ability to make sensible decisions: common sense, judgment, wisdom. Informal : gumption, horse sense. See ABILITY. 3. The faculty of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge: brain (often used in plural), brainpower, intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind, understanding, wit. Slang : smart (used in plural). See ABILITY, THOUGHTS. 4. That which is signified by a word or expression: acceptation, connotation, denotation, import, intent, meaning, message, purport, significance, significancy, signification, value. See MEANING. 5. A healthy mental state. Often used in plural: lucidity, lucidness, mind, reason, saneness, sanity, soundness, wit (used in plural). Slang : marble (used in plural). See SANE. 6. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus: feeling, sensation, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment. See AWARENESS. 7. What is sound or reasonable: logic, rationale, rationality, rationalness, reason. Idioms: rhyme or reason. See REASON. | | VERB: | 1. To view in a certain way: believe, feel, hold, think. See OPINION. 2. To be intuitively aware of: apprehend, feel, intuit, perceive. Idioms: feel in one's bones, get vibrations. See KNOWLEDGE. 3. To perceive and recognize the meaning of: accept, apprehend, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, read, see, take, take in, understand. Informal : savvy. Slang : dig. Chiefly British : twig. Scots : ken. Idioms: get (or have) a handle on, get the picture. See UNDERSTAND.
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