Thinker’s block to writing — The five senses.
Have you ever felt the need to scribble a lot of sentences, get everything ready, all set to write, and have nothing left to pen?
I would like to call it, “Thinker’s block to writing,” akin to a lot of sentences, scrolling in the head while undergoing daily, mundane tasks of importance.
Headlines, characters, plots, comments, imaginations run wild at the wrong time. Have you been there before?
Let’s put it this way, while we scramble for news of what's happening around us, watching celebrities, trending headlines, checking the latest fashion, styles, business, finance, crimes, cases, advertisements, juggling to and fro…finding for updates every half an hour or one hour…a call from a friend…local news…family news…we are literally using our entire five senses to complete work!
“You must be joking!”
“Are you just wasting our time?”
Certainly, No!
Some words will help me explain how our reactions and our five senses work in harmony. We are building our knowledge database about the current news, trends, information, or misinformation while using our five senses:
Sight | Sound | Smell | Taste |Touch
I am reaching out to https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus to guide me to understand the thinker’s block in detail when we are connected with the outside world.
Sight- How we see, observe, read, react.
Link: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sight
Synonyms: cast, eye, gander, glance, glimpse, look, peek, peep, regard, view
Related words: gape, gaze, glare, leer, ogle, stare, side-glance, squinny, squint
coup d’oeil
Emotions: eyesore, fright, hideosity, horror, mess, monstrosity
Medical Conditions: myopia, nearsightedness, farsightedness, hypermetropia, hyperopia, presbyopia, aniseikonia, astigmatism, diplopia, squint, strabismus
double vision
Related Emotions (Neutral): identity, make out, pick out, pick up, attend (to), consider, heed, mark, mind, study, watch, examine, inspect, scan, scrutinize, survey, glance (at), glimpse, peer (at)
Antonyms: disregard, ignore, neglect, overpass, pass over, miss, overlook
Hearing — How audio and video get connected.
Link: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hear
Synonyms: ascertain, catch on (to), discover, find out, get on (to), learn, realize, see, wise (up), ace, bit, crumb, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, little, mite, nip, ounce, particle, peanuts, ray, scintilla, scruple, shade, shadow, shred, skosh, smack, smidgen (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), snap, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, splash, spot, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, touch, trace
Related words: hit (on or upon), tumble (to), descry, detect, encounter, espy, spot, calculate, dope (out), figure out, find, puzzle (out), discern, mind, note, observe, perceive, divine
Actions: attend, hark, harken, hearken, heed, listen, mind,
Medical conditions: tone, modulation in terms of audio and video(sight), can harm the listener engaged in high volumes, affecting the heart rhythms, increasing palpitations, and the need to savor the smell of food and drink in excess.
Related emotions: processed information by reading or watching (sight) and audio (hearing) is sent to the brain. Positive emotions:
Antonyms: miss, overlook, disregard, ignore, forget, unlearn, blanket, blot out, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, enshroud, hide, mask, occult, screen, shroud, veil, discount, disregard,
Smell- When we see and perceive (using sight)
Link: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smell
Synonyms: nose, scent, sniff, snuff, whiff, air, ambience (or ambiance), aroma, atmosphere, aura, climate, flavor, halo, karma, mood, nimbus, note, odor, patina, temper, vibration(s)
Related words: breathe, drink (in), inhale, respire, snort, snuffle
savor (also savour), behold, descry, discern, distinguish, espy, eye, look (at), note, notice, observe, regard, remark, sight, spy, view, witness, ascertain, catch on (to), discover, find out, hear, learn, realize, anticipate, divine, expect, foreknow, foresee, assume, conjecture, guess, presume, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect
Basic Emotions: feel, perceive, scent, see, sense, taste,
Medical conditions: Sweat stress, excessive perspiration, smelly body odour
Visual Emotions: aureole (or aureola), mystique, romance, genius loci, feel, feeling, sensation, sense, spirit, attribute, character, characteristic, image, mark, notion, peculiarity, picture, property, trait, color, illusion, overtone, semblance, suggestion, tone
Environment-related words: whiff, attar (also otto), bouquet, fragrance, perfume, ambrosia, lusciousness, savor (also savour), savoriness, spice, tang, acridness, fetidness, fetor, foulness, funk, gaminess, malodor, noisomeness, rancidity, rankness, reek, stench, stink, aromaticity, odoriferousness, odorousness, incense, musk
Antonyms : abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth, volume, bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, chunk, hunk, lump, slab
Taste- When we smell and react (using smell)
Link: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taste
Synonyms: feel, perceive, scent, see, sense, smell, flavor, savor (also savour) (Note: Savour is also related to smell), bite, morsel, mouthful, nibble, nugget, tidbit (also titbit),
Primary Emotions: appetite, fancy, favor, fondness, like, liking, love, love affair, partiality, preference, relish, shine, use,
Environment-related emotions: craving, desire, hankering, longing, thirst, yen
enthusiasm, gusto, interest, passion, bias, prejudice, bent, inclination, leaning, propensity, tendency, tooth, palate, weakness
Secondary emotions: behold, descry, discern, distinguish, espy, eye, look (at), note, notice, observe, regard, remark, sight, spy, view, witness
ascertain, catch on (to), discover, find out, hear, learn, realize
anticipate, divine, expect, foreknow, foresee, assume, conjecture, guess, presume, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect
Medical Conditions:
Related words: relish, smack, tang, savoriness, tastiness, aftertaste, collop, medallion, noisette, nosh, snack, appetizer, canapé, hors d’oeuvre,
bit, chew, crumb, dab, dribble, driblet, fleck, hint, mote, nubbin, particle, pinch, scrap, scruple, shred, smidgen (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), snip, snippet, speck, spot, sprinkling, suspicion, tittle, touch, trace, dash, drop
lap, lick, gulp, swallow, swig
Antonyms: apathy, disinclination, indifference, unconcern, aversion, disfavor, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, loathing, mislike
Touch: Interlinking the other primary senses
Link: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/touch
Synonyms: feel, affect, impact, impress, influence, move, reach, strike, sway, tell (on),
Related words: caress, embrace, finger, fondle, hug, kiss, lip, nose, nudge, nuzzle, paw, rub, stroke, palp, palpate, brush, graze, shave, skim
clasp, clench, cling (to), clutch, grasp, grip, handle, hold, palm
chuck, clap, dab, flick, pat, tag, tap, tip, hit, knock, pound, rap, whack,
Reactions: inkling, intimation, scent, wind, evidence, indication, mark, sign,
Environment-related emotions: affection, attribute, attribution, character, characteristic, criterion, diagnostic, differentia, feature, fingerprint, hallmark, mark, marker, note, particularity, peculiarity, point, property, quality, specific, stamp, trait
Related to sight, smell: breath, flicker, glimmer, hint, suggestion, tang, trace, whiff,
Character traits related words: badge, indication, sign, emblem, symbol, token, charm, grace, excellence, merit, virtue, eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, oddity, quirk, individuality, singularity, uniqueness
Emotions: carry away, dazzle, enrapture, entrance, enthrall (or enthral), ravish, transport, bias, color, inspire, stir, engage, interest, involve, penetrate, pierce, afflict, agitate, bother, concern, discomfort, discompose, disquiet, distress, disturb, fluster, harass, harry, perturb, pester, plague, smite, strain, stress, trouble, try, upset, worry, wring, allure, attract, bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, fascinate
Stirring emotions: blemish, darken, mar, poison, spoil, stain, taint, tarnish, vitiate.
Secondary emotions: begrime, besmear, besmirch, blacken, blur, cloud, dirty, discolor, pollute, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, soil, sully, tar, abase, cheapen, debase, degrade, demean, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, foul, lower, shame, sink, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, pervert, subvert, color, distort, twist
Antonyms: cleanse, purify, dignify, elevate, ennoble, enshrine, glorify, hallow, magnify, uplift, permeation, pervasion, saturation, abundance, barrel, boatload, bucket, bundle, bushel, deal, fistful, gobs, heaps, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, oodles, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, stack, wad, wealth, volume, bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, chunk, hunk, lump, slab
So, you can see how when we perceive the word around us, we could get affected using the five senses. Please read this article again so that you can start writing using the above words to avert the thinker’s block.
Note: This article is for encouraging writing, purely for informational and educational purposes only, and not intended to be substituted for professional medical advice diagnosis or treatment.
