Wiktionary
n. This set of five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste(,) and touch.
Wikipedia
Five senses refers to the five traditionally recognized methods of perception, or sense: hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste.
Five senses may also refer to:
- Five wits, a categorization scheme originating in Shakespearean times
- 5 Senses (album), a 1981 album by XTC
Usage examples of "five senses".
The source of it is that Reid was obliged to relate the results of his observations only to the five senses known in his day, whereas in fact his observations embrace a far greater field of human sense-perception.
The records show that even though the five senses be in abeyance in them, they are absolutely sensational in their epistemological quality, if I may be pardoned the barbarous expression,—.
But unlike the other five senses, it could not be accessed except in brief, unpredictable, erratic bursts without the aid of a prism.
Consider, first, that all your five senses are differing forms of one basic sense--something like touch.
For when we perceived any creature, we perceive it through our five senses and react to it accordingly, according to our way of being and behaviour.
How do you stumble through life with only these inept five senses?
Certainly the 'five senses' are poor enough channels of communication, but they are the only channels.
And so I rode on, ever at the alert with my five senses, for the sixth of the Wit was no help at all in finding Forged ones.
Although a number of watch investigators had been through the room with all five senses and divination spells, they'd found nothing.
Everything vanished, as if all five senses had been instantaneously wiped out.
Understand this, Picard: there is no way your primitive consciousness can truly comprehend what it means to be part of the Q Continuum, so everything I show you from here on has been translated into a form that can be perceived by your rudimentary five senses.
Things that were inconceivable in terms of the five senses, or in abstract symbols of philosophic or mathematic thought, were made plain to me as the letters of the alphabet.