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commonsensical

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noun

sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.

Origin:
1525–35; translation of Latin sēnsus commūnis, itself translation of Greek koinḕ aísthēsis

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com·mon-sense, com·mon·sense, adjective

com·mon·sen·si·cal, com·mon·sen·si·ble, adjective

com·mon·sen·si·cal·ly, com·mon·sen·si·bly, adverb

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common sense

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" (L. sensus communis, Gk. koine aisthesis); meaning "good sense" is from 1726. Also, as an adj., commonsense.

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commonsensical

1860, from common sense, with ending as in nonsensical, etc.

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(1776) A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that called for the United States to declare independence from Britain immediately. Written in a brisk and pungent style, Common Sense had a tremendous impact and helped to persuade many Americans that they could successfully wage a war for their independence.

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"The age of independent travel is drawing to an end," said E.M. Forster back in 1920, when it had been increasingly clear for decades that the mass production inevitable in the late industrial age had generated its own travel-spawn, tourism, which is to travel as plastic is to wood. If travel is mysterious, even miraculous, and often lonely and frightening, tourism is commonsensical, utilitarian, safe, and social, "that gregarious passion," the traveler Patrick Leigh Fermor calls it, "which destroys the object of its love." Not self-directed but externally enticed, as a tourist you go not where your own curiosity beckons but where the industry decrees you shall go. Tourism soothes, shielding you from the shocks of novelty and menace, confirming your prior view of the world rather than shaking it up. It obliges you not just to behold conventional things but to behold them in the approved conventional way"

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