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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sense of directionnoun

    an awareness of your orientation in space

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  1. Sense of direction

    Sense of direction is the ability to know one's location and perform wayfinding. It is related to cognitive maps, spatial awareness, and spatial cognition. Sense of direction can be impaired by brain damage, such as in the case of topographical disorientation. Humans create spatial maps whenever they go somewhere. Neurons called place cells inside the hippocampus fire individually while a person makes their way through an environment. This was first discovered in rats, when the neurons of the hippocampus were recorded. Certain neurons fired whenever the rat was in a certain area of its environment. These neurons form a grid when they are all put together on the same plane.

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  1. sense of direction

    Sense of direction refers to the ability to recognize one's position or location in relation to surrounding environments, landmarks or destinations, and to navigate or move confidently and accurately from one place to another. This ability is often associated with a strong understanding of spatial awareness and usually involves the use of visual clues, innate instinct, memory, or tools like maps and compasses.

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  1. sense of direction

    An intuitive knowing of our purpose, aspirations, goal, role, vision and the step-by-step way to achieve them.

    Our sense of direction is important to us, it guides us to where we require to go.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 22, 2021  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sense of direction in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sense of direction in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of sense of direction in a Sentence

  1. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

    An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.

  2. Scott Brown , chief economist:

    My sense is you get a little bit of back and forth, no real clear sense of direction over the next several days.

  3. Ed Al-Hussainy:

    The Fed is likely to communicate that there is more scope for fiscal measures but that is a very uncomfortable spot to be in, we won't have a clear sense of direction of the economy until well into the fourth quarter because all the sequential data now is massively positive.

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