Synonyms for common sense
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1. common sensenoun

   Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.

   Synonyms:
   good sense, native wit, mother wit

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. common sense

   Synonyms:
   acuteness, astuteness, brilliancy, capacity, intelligence, sagacity, sense, soundness, wisdom

   Antonyms:
   fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, incapacity, senselessness, stupidity

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother witnoun

   sound practical judgment

   "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

   Synonyms:
   gumption, sensation, sentience, grit, sentiency, good sense, backbone, guts, sand, moxie, sense, horse sense, signified, sensory faculty, mother wit

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1. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   There is always a contradiction between religion and common sense.

2. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov:

   The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

3. Katharine Hepburn:

   My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

4. René Descartes:

   Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

5. Thomas Edison:

   The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.