# common sense

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.
2. One of the four interior senses; the one by which information from the five exterior senses is understood and interpreted.

## Etymology
Calque of Middle French sens commun and its source, Latin sēnsus commūnis, itself a calque of Ancient Greek κοινὴ αἴσθησις (koinḕ aísthēsis).

## Source
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