The phrase "an existing sense of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a current awareness or understanding of a particular situation, feeling, or concept.
Example: "The community has an existing sense of unity that has been strengthened over the years."
Alternatives: "a current awareness of" or "an established feeling of".
To be successful, it needs to be able to draw on an existing sense of community (rare in settlements of recently arrived migrants from the countryside), and on forceful and charismatic local leaders.The scope of such schemes, in any case, is limited to solving environmental problems caused by, and felt by, the community itself.
In listening, the taking of sound as music implies an already existing sense of what music is, something that makes it possible for us to take these sounds as music rather than noise.
The security arrangements add edge to the existing sense of expectation at the prospect of meeting Malala Yousafzai and, in my case, her father.
There is a lot wrong with female socialization, but one thing we don't do a lot of is interrupt each other, and especially not to project a hologram right where someone else is standing that reinforces and coddles our existing sense of self.
This fundraising aspect is expected to appeal to participants' existing sense of duty to raise funds for cultural or local community events and other needs.
(P08) Mothers also pointed out that badly written/inaccurate information was very upsetting, and undermined any existing sense of trust that had been built up.
The most straightforward regulatory function of asRNA is its ability to hybridize to its existing sense mRNA and hinder translation of that particular mRNA molecule.
Cybernetics allows artists to express themselves through senses that might still not exist or through extensions of their existing senses.
For them, however, the price of a ticket won't buy much-needed enlightenment, but only big-screen authentication for a pre-existing sense of self-righteous superiority.
Roozeboom says the data PocketLab pulls come from smartphone "industry standard sensors" — which he claims means it can offer better performance than many of the existing sensing products it's looking to replace, owing to this type of sensing tech being more state of the art.
In the case of cyborgs, existing senses are extended or new ones created by applying cybernetic technology to the organism.
