MOTHER WIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mother wit mean? 

• MOTHER WIT (noun)
  The noun MOTHER WIT has 1 sense:

1. sound practical judgment

  Familiarity information: MOTHER WIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOTHER WIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sound practical judgment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

common sense; good sense; gumption; horse sense; mother wit; sense

Context example:

fortunately she had the good sense to run away

Hypernyms ("mother wit" 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 "mother wit"):

logic (reasoned and reasonable judgment)

nous (common sense)

road sense (good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road)

 Context examples 

Well, he concluded, you need figures to take a reckoning, and you need nothing else save what your mother wit will teach you.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)