The body of knowledge and experience that originates from the beliefs and opinions of ordinary people.
folk wisdom has ascribed the problem to children sleeping too deeply
Example sentencesExamples
- Even in the 21st century, patients still confront the age-old folk wisdom that illness is a punishment for moral failure.
- He's just reflecting the folk wisdom prevalent in the valley.
- Her granddaughters reinterpret her tales, finding in the folk wisdom of the Italian past all the energies of self-invention for the future.
- Little of the folk wisdom drew on the findings of research or had undergone scholarly testing.
- The writer took a direct shot at folk wisdom.
- Attitudes towards danger embody a kind of folk wisdom which can be more stable than ever-changing scientific views.
- His system of mind control was to create a book combining folk wisdom with propaganda.
- What he sees is a consistent effort to integrate feminist ideology with folk wisdom.
- The word 'spirit' resonates with enough folk wisdom to steer interpretation in a particular direction.
- The wisdom of the people—folk wisdom, for example—has amassed a great wealth of empirical discovery connected with healing.