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 1. common sense
 - she has great social nous
 • Regions:
 United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain
 • Hypernyms:
 common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
 2. that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings;
 the seat of the faculty of reason
 - his mind wandered
 - I couldn't get his words out of my head
 • Syn:
 mind, head, brain, psyche
 • Derivationally related forms:
 psychical (for: psyche), psychic (for: psyche), mind (for: mind)
 • Hypernyms:
 cognition, knowledge, noesis
 • Hyponyms:
 noddle, tabula rasa, ego, unconscious mind, unconscious,
 subconscious mind, subconscious
 
 
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