Conventional Wisdom Definition

noun
The generally accepted belief with regard to some matter, or the set of beliefs held by most people.
Webster's New World

A belief or set of beliefs that is widely accepted, especially one which may be questionable on close examination.

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conventional wisdom
Plural:
conventional wisdoms

Conventional Wisdom Sentence Examples

  • Suggesting CBMs has become so axiomatic of conventional wisdom in situations of perplexity that one hesitates to follow such a well-trodden path.

  • The findings challenge the conventional wisdom that low intensity forms of EI have little effect on performance.

  • As will have been gathered, communists defy conventional wisdom.

  • This interpretation became the conventional wisdom both inside Departments and among medicines manufacturers and others outside government.

  • The policy of artificially stimulating investment is also too reminiscent of postwar conventional wisdom.

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