The term "sixth sense" can refer to different things depending on the context. Here are some possible meanings:
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The Sixth Sense (1999 film): This is a psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Bruce Willis as a child psychologist whose patient claims he can see and talk to the dead.
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Proprioception: This is an under-appreciated "sixth sense" that allows us to keep track of where our body parts are in space. It is not one of the traditional five senses (taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch) .
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Intuition: If you say that someone has a sixth sense, you mean that they seem to have a natural ability to know about things before other people, or to know things without using the ordinary five senses.
In summary, the term "sixth sense" can refer to a movie, a bodily sense, or a sense of intuition.
