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GOOD SENSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sound practical judgment
Example:
fortunately she had the good sense to run away
Synonyms:
common sense; good sense; gumption; horse sense; mother wit; sense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("good sense" is a kind of...):
discernment; judgement; judgment; sagaciousness; sagacity (the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good sense"):
logic (reasoned and reasonable judgment)
nous (common sense)
road sense (good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road)
Context examples:
Oh, said the father, she has plenty of good sense; and the mother said: Oh, she can see the wind coming up the street, and hear the flies coughing.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
According to the biologists, it makes good sense, that cormorants can hear under water — the environment where it finds most of its food.
(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Very well; I hope you feel the content you express: at any rate, your good sense will tell you that it is too soon yet to yield to the vacillating fears of Lot's wife.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Overall, participants with a weak nose were 46 percent more likely to die by year 10 and 30 percent more apt to pass away by year 13 than people with a good sense of smell, the study found.
(Declining Sense of Smell Linked to Risk of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Their resemblance in good principles and good sense, in disposition and manner of thinking, would probably have been sufficient to unite them in friendship, without any other attraction; but their being in love with two sisters, and two sisters fond of each other, made that mutual regard inevitable and immediate, which might otherwise have waited the effect of time and judgment.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
While I, quoth the other loudly, do maintain the good sense and extraordinary wisdom of that most learned William against the crack-brained fantasies of the muddy Scotchman, who hath hid such little wit as he has under so vast a pile of words, that it is like one drop of Gascony in a firkin of ditch-water.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The good sense of Colonel and Mrs. Campbell could not oppose such a resolution, though their feelings did.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A great deal of good sense followed on Sir Thomas's side, tending to reconcile his wife to the arrangement.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I am always willing to defer to your good sense.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
