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time sense

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time sense (uncountable)

  1. (psychology) An ability to sense the passage of time and to estimate and compare its intervals.
    • 1915, Thomas Burke, “An Entertainment Night: Round the Halls”, in Nights in Town: A London Autobiography, London: George Allen & Unwin [], page 44:
      Pathetic as its passing is, one cannot honestly regret the old school. I was looking last night at the programme of my very first hall, and received a terrible shock to my time-sense. Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are the entertainers of 1895?