different between mood vs sense

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?od, IPA^(key): /mu?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d
• Homophone: mooed

Etymology 1

From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English m?d (“heart, mind, spirit, mood, temper; courage; arrogance, pride; power, violence”), from Proto-Germanic *m?d?, *m?daz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh?-, *meh?- (“endeavour, will, temper”). Cognate with Scots mude, muid (“mood, courage, spirit, temper, disposition”), Saterland Frisian Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“mind, spirit, courage, will, intention”), Dutch moed (“courage, bravery, heart, valor”), German Low German Mood (“mind, heart, courage”), German Mut (“courage, braveness, heart, spirit”), Danish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Swedish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Icelandic móður (“wrath, grief, moodiness”), Latin m?s (“will, humour, wont, inclination, mood”), Russian ????? (smet?, “to dare, venture”).

Noun

mood (plural moods)

1. A mental or emotional state, composure.

   Synonyms: composure, humor, spirit, temperament

2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
   • 1979, Judith Glassman, The Year in Music, 1979 (?ISBN):

     Whatever the mood of her music, funky or romantic, upbeat or blue, sophisticated or simple, her fans get the message. And as long as the word comes from Natalie, they adore it, turning every one of her albums to gold or platinum.

3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

   Synonyms: (informal) huff, pet, temper

   Antonyms: good humour, good mood, good spirits

   • 2010, Michelle West, City of Night: A Novel of the House War, Penguin (?ISBN):

     Rath was clearly in a mood, and only Jay could fix that. They found Carver first. Rath was even less amused to see Carver in the drill room than he had been to find Duster. He grabbed Carver with his free hand, and dragged him out.

   • 2018, Catherine Lievens, Beacon in the Darkness, eXtasy Books (?ISBN), page 93:

     Joel was obviously in a mood, and if he was going to start yelling, Alex would rather be alone. “What did I do this time?” “It's more what you didn't do, idiot.”

4. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

   Synonyms: huff, frame of mind

   • 2018, Rebecca Chastain, A Fistful of Frost, Mind Your Muse Books (?ISBN):

     "The Placer SPCA brings by some kittens and puppies, and I do my best to get everyone tipsy and in a donating mood."

6. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
   • 1994, Kenneth Fearing, Complete Poems, page xxvi:

     This was the mood that led him to deny to Mainstream, the successor to the New Masses , permission to reprint “Reading, Writing, and the Rackets.” This was the mood that, when he was invited to a meeting to draft a letter of protest […]

   • 2010, Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, Methods Matter, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 8:

     By the early 1970s, more than 50,000 American deaths and the accompanying failed foreign-policy objectives had changed the country's mood.

7. (very colloquial, slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

   Synonym: big mood

   • 2019, Kris Ripper, Runaway Road Trip: (A Definitely-Not-Romantic Adventure):

     “I'm only here for a night. I'm road tripping with a friend and he decided we needed a queer bar, stat.” “Oh, that's a whole mood.”

   • 2020, Birgit Breidenbach, Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood: Stimmung and Modernity, Routledge (?ISBN)

     […] For academics, not being familiar with new phrases that your students cofindently wield is a whole mood. […]

   • 2020, Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites (Oliver-Heber Books):

     He'd drawn a variety of designs on the white rubber toes. “Nice shoes,” I said. “Likewise,” he said, glancing down at my rockabilly-red peep toe pumps. “Those kicks are a whole-ass mood.” Whether Steven liked them on me or might like to […]

8. (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.
   • 1440, O lord omnipotent?

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "mood": good, bad, foul.
• The phrase with main and mood means "with all one's might".

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ambiance, ambience
• atmosphere
• Gemütlichkeit

References

• The Middle English Dictionary
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Alteration of mode, from Latin modus.

Noun

mood (plural moods)

1. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

   Synonyms: grammatical mood, mode

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:grammatical mood

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• aspect
• tense

Anagrams

• Doom, Odom, doom

Estonian

Etymology

From German Mode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?o?d??/

Noun

mood (genitive moe, partitive moodi)

1. fashion
2. tradition
3. appearance, style
4. (partitive) style, variety, sort, type

Declension

See also

• moondama

Manx

Pronoun

mood

1. second-person singular of mysh

   about you

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English m?d.

Noun

mood

1. Alternative form of mode (“intellect, mood, will, courage, nature”)

Etymology 2

From Old French mode.

Noun

mood

1. Alternative form of mode (“grammatical mood”)

English

Alternative forms

• sence (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English sense, borrowed from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, reason, direction”); partly from Latin sensus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from senti? (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn (“reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction”). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?n(t)s/
• (General American) enPR: s?ns, IPA^(key): /s?ns/
• (pen-pin merger) IPA^(key): /s?n(t)s/
• Rhymes: -?ns
• Homophones: cents, scents, since (some dialects)

Noun

sense (countable and uncountable, plural senses)

2. Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
4. Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.

   a sense of security

   • this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
6. Sound practical or moral judgment.

   It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
8. The meaning, reason, or value of something.

   You don’t make any sense.

   the true sense of words or phrases

   • So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
10. A natural appreciation or ability.

    A keen musical sense

12. (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
14. (semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.

    The word set has various senses.

16. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
18. (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
20. (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.

Synonyms

• nonnonsense

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• common-sense
• good sense
• nonsense

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: sense

Translations

See also

Verb

sense (third-person singular simple present senses, present participle sensing, simple past and past participle sensed)

1. To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
2. To instinctively be aware.

   She immediately sensed her disdain.

3. To comprehend.

Translations

Anagrams

• Essen, NESes, SE SNe, enses, esnes, seens, senes, snees

Afrikaans

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English sense.

Noun

sense (uncountable)

1. sense, good sense

Etymology 2

Noun

sense

1. plural of sens

Catalan

Alternative forms

• sens

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin sine, possibly conflated with absentia, or more likely from sens, itself from Old Catalan sen (with an adverbial -s-), from Latin sine. Compare French sans, Occitan sens, Italian senza.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?s?n.s?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?s?n.s?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sen.se/

Preposition

sense

1. without

   Antonym: amb

Derived terms

• sensesostre

Further reading

• “sense” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sense” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sense” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sense” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (sensei).

Noun

sense

1. teacher

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sen.se/, [?s???s??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sen.se/, [?s?ns?]

Participle

s?nse

1. vocative masculine singular of s?nsus

Occitan

Alternative forms

• sens
• shens (Gascony)

Etymology

From a variant of Latin sine (“without”), influenced by abs?ns (“absent, remote”).

Preposition

sense

1. without

References

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 556.