common sense

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Concepten

gezond verstand

nous

Synoniemen

good sense

sense

gumption

mother wit

nous

horse sense

logic

reason

general knowledge

reasoning

intelligence

wits

common knowledge

customs and manners

common understanding

policy

commonsense

common course

insight

logically

marble

mind

reasonably

right

rote

shrewdness

smarts

wisdom

Vertalingen

bon sens

gesunder Menschenverstand

buonsenso

sens commun

sentido común

bom senso

senso comum

κοινή λογική

buon senso

sağduyu

seny

Hausverstand

κοινός νους

senso comune

Etymologie (Engels)

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