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Another word for common sense

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Noun

  1. The ability to make sensible decisions

      1. Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness.
      2. Guts; spunk.
      3. Common sense.
      1. The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight.
      2. Common sense; good judgment:
      3. The sum of learning through the ages; knowledge:
      1. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.
      2. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation:
      3. The faculties of sensation as means of providing physical gratification and pleasure.
      1. The act or process of judging; the formation of an opinion after consideration or deliberation.
      2. An opinion or estimate formed after consideration or deliberation, especially a formal or authoritative decision:
      3. The mental ability to perceive and distinguish relationships; discernment:
    See also:

    ability

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Another word for common sense

Modifier
      1. Having or exercising the ability to reason.
      2. Consistent with or based on reason or good judgment; logical or sensible:
      3. Of sound mind; sane:
      1. Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
      2. Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
      3. The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
      1. Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
      2. Not ornate or impractical:
      3. Having a perception of something; cognizant:
    See also:

    reasonable

    practical

    judicious

Noun
  1. See also:

    wisdom

    sense

    judgment

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