sense of wonder

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseandwonder

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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wonder
noun
uk
/ˈwʌn.dər/us
/ˈwʌn.dɚ/
a feeling of great surprise and admiration caused by seeing or experiencing something that is strange ...
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(Definition ofsenseandwonderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of wonder

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Both performers shared asenseofwonderand curiosity about the experience with instruments.
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Such plasticity or openness to possibility generates asenseofwonderabout musical resources, allowing new perspectives to be explored.
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Thesenseofwonderdisappeared from life.
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Sherrington filled his lectures with poetic tropes in order to sustain asenseofwonderand beauty.
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Science does not merely "destroy" fantastical and aesthetic elements of mythology but reconverts them, complete with asenseofwonderand awe, into observationally-verified, scientific sets of facts.
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I believe that a child has a divine right to his curiosity andsenseofwonder.
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It all helps to keep alive the sense of history, the sense of culture, the sense of beauty, and thesenseofwonder.
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Thesenseofwonderexperienced by the very young on a visit to the science museum—either with school parties or with their parents—is of value.
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Thesenseofwonderthat it inspires is due to the fact that it has remained largely unchanged.
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I may share with others thesenseofwonderthat none of us could have believed in 1987 that the most significant international changes would take place.
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One of the great pleasures in life is to take one's children to the zoo and to share theirsenseofwonderat the things that they see.
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We wanted to incorporate asenseofwonder; a sense of awe; beauty; respect for one's fellow human beings; and appreciation of courage, both physical and moral.
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How are teachers supposed to inculcate in those children thesenseofwonderand awareness of the world when they are sitting in a toilet learning about computers?
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It seeks to restore the balance between the exploitation of and asenseofwonderfor the works of nature and talks in terms of stewardship rather than of domination.
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It also gave me thesenseofwonderand magic.
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Capricon is a gathering of many diverse people who all share asenseofwonder.
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Second, he notes that human beings delight in asenseofwonder, and this provides a villain with an opportunity to manipulate others.
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He describes the book as conveying a remarkablesenseofwonder.
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