Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mother_wit
1 sense of mother wit
Sense 1
common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit -- (sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away")
=> sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment -- (the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations)