common sense

Questions about common sense

What does common sense mean?

common sense means "sound practical judgment".

What is another word for common sense?

Close synonyms include good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common sense a common word?

common sense is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.