0 an ability that some people believe they have that seems to give them information without using the five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste:
1 an ability to know something without using the ordinary five senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste:
This sixth sense is unlike our ordinary perceptual faculties.
The five ordinary senses involve a spatial relation between the perceiver and the perceived, but a sixth sense might not.
This sixth sense would be a special religious perceptual organ!
How you managed was chie_y by cultivating an eye or ear - was it a sixth sense?
The worker has a sixth sense and can tell when things are going right and when things are wrong.
This clinical sixth sense can flower to its fullest extent far more easily in a small teaching hospital.
Most women have a built-in sixth sense which gives them a sense of danger when they are in the company of a particular man.
I can only goon my hunch, my sixth sense which one develops over a period of very many years of working in the field.
