Detect
Detect verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.
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- For example, the sense of "touch" is broken into the ability to feel pressure, feel pain, detect the temperature of what you are touching, etc.
Source: Useful Notes / Psychology - While characters can sometimes feel particularly potent chakra, such as that of a bijuu, only specialist sensor ninjas have ever displayed the ability to detect a person by their chakra.
Source: Fanon / Naruto - Most ninjas in Naruto can feel the chakra of others while fighting them up close, but the ability to detect and gauge it from a distance is very rare.
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