common sense

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

bon sens

gesunder Menschenverstand

buonsenso

sens commun

sentido común

gezond verstand

senso comum

bom senso

κοινή λογική

buon senso

seny

Hausverstand

κοινός νους

sağduyu

Etymology

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