common sense

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.
One of the four interior senses; the one by which information from the five exterior senses is understood and interpreted.

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common sense common-sense commonsense

Calque of Middle French sens commun and its source, Latin sēnsus commūnis, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὴ αἴσθησις (koinḕ aísthēsis).

cop on good sense horse sense mother wit native wit

common knowledge conventional wisdom critical thinking

common sense is neither common nor sensical Common Sense Revolution commonsensible commonsensibly commonsensical commonsensically

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