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Definition of Common sense
1. Noun. Sound practical judgment. "Fortunately she had the good sense to run away"
Generic synonyms: Discernment, Judgement, Judgment, Sagaciousness, Sagacity
Specialized synonyms: Logic, Nous, Road Sense
Derivative terms: Commonsensical, Sense
Definition of Common sense
1. Noun. (obsolete) An internal sense, formerly believed to be the sense by which information from the other five senses is understood and interpreted. ¹
2. Noun. Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Sense
Literary usage of Common sense
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1897)
"On Officers for 1897-98: Professors March, Harrington, and Elwell. 4. Aristotle's
Doctrine of the Central or common sense ..."
2. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"sense teaches him what is right and wrong, as surely as the other's moral sense
did : meaning by common sense, a sense of some kind or other, which, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"A few weeks after, Paine's "common sense" appeared, and passed through the
continent like an electric spark. It everywhere flashed conviction; and aroused a ..."
4. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"If Reid appeals to common sense, using the phrase with a philosophical meaning,
... An appeal to common sense was dangerous when common sense was the ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"TITEN rarely ask," says Dr. Reid, " what common sense is ; because -"-*- every
man believes himself possessed of it, and would take it for an imputation ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"It is the second of these meanings that is implied in the philosophy of common
sense—a meaning well expressed by Fénelon when he identifies common sense ..."
7. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"common sense is less sweeping in its demands than philosophy or mysticism have
been wont to be, and can suffer the notion of this world being partly saved ..."
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