common sense vs pretense

common sense

noun
  • Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made. 

pretense

noun
  • Intention or purpose not real but professed. 

  • An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality. 

  • A false or hypocritical profession 

  • An unsupported claim made or implied. 

How often have the words common sense and pretense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )