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

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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. Martin Sheen:

   She has some common sense. I’m not saying she’s mistake-free. Who is? I mean, she’s a human being, so, please, if you want to talk about how much her mistakes have cost us, none in human lives — and please don’t mention Benghazi. He added, That’s a lot of crap. She was not controlling that situation. It was a military situation. And that’s run by the Pentagon or the CIA or both. She’s under orders.

2. Bryant McGill:

   The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

3. Douglas Noel Adams:

   The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.....

4. Brad Raffensperger:

   When it came to actually present evidence to support their ridiculous talking points in court, President Biden’s The DOJ and their liberal allies failed miserably, that’s because the common sense election reforms in Georgia’s Election Integrity Act, like photo-ID for all forms of voting, make sense.' Raffensperger continued.

5. Keith Ellison:

   As attorney general, I will push for equal rights under the law, for common-sense gun safety laws, and for criminal justice reform that ends unjust policies and creates a pathway for Minnesotans to re-enter as contributing members of society.