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Définition of common sense
Origin :- 14c., originally the power of uniting mentally the impressions conveyed by the five physical senses, thus "ordinary understanding, without which one is foolish or insane" (Latin sensus communis, Greek koine aisthesis); meaning "good sense" is from 1726. Also, as an adjective, commonsense.
- noun sound judgment
- Is this dress ridiculous in the eyes of reason and common sense?
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Fictions or realities, could they survive the touchstone of this atom of common sense?
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- I lost all presence of mind, all common sense, all recollection.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- But you, my dear Olivia, will not be deaf to the warning voice of common sense.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Except your mother, who has no will of her own, have any of them common sense?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Some have even defined genius to be only common sense intensified.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- The path of success in business is usually the path of common sense.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- In fact, I have always rather prided myself on my common sense.
- Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Well, if we were talking science instead of common sense, we should call that an Experimental Verification.
- Extract from : « The Method By Which The Causes Of The Present And Past Conditions Of Organic Nature Are To Be Discovered.--The Origination Of Living Beings » by Thomas H. Huxley
- Was there no guiding mind, no military talent, no common sense?
- Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
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