sensically

adv

Etymology

From sensical + -ly.

  1. derived from *sent-✻ — “to feel”
  2. derived from *sinn✻
  3. derived from *sennus✻ — “sense, reason, way”
  4. derived from sēnsus — “sensation, feeling, meaning”
  5. derived from sens, sen, san — “sense, perception, direction”
  6. inherited from sense
  7. suffixed as sensical — “sense + ical”
  8. suffixed as sensically — “sensical + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a sensical way

    In a sensical way; reasonably, sanely.

    • We cannot sensically say: "you must wait, if you like"; nor can we say sensically "if you like" with any of the other three clauses in Table 2.

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