sapience
Other forms: sapiences
Sapience is the quality of being wise, or wisdom. When voters are choosing a candidate, they usually hope for one with at least a degree of sapience.
Many people believe that when we grow older, our sapience also increases as we gain experience and knowledge. Sapience in an important quality in a good teacher or mentor, since students can benefit from that wisdom. Sapience is an Old French word that comes from the Latin sapientia, "good taste, good sense, intelligence, or wisdom." The Proto-Indo-European root is sep-, "to taste or to perceive."
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ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
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synonyms:
wisdom
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types:
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astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness, profundity
the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
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discernment, judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity
the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
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eye
good discernment (either visually or as if visually)
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common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit, sense
sound practical judgment
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judiciousness
good judgment
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circumspection, discreetness, discretion, prudence
knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
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indiscreetness, injudiciousness
lacking good judgment
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know-how
the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something
Vocabulary lists containing sapience
Eighteen-year-old Ella Minnow Pea fights to save her family, friends, and neighbors after the local government forbids the use certain letters of the alphabet in written and spoken communications.
Milton's masterpiece retells the Biblical story of humanity's fall from divine favor. Read the full text of the twelve-book version of the epic poem here.
Ever have a sense of deja vu? David Brin's short story investigates the possibility that our lives are virtual simulations that we live through again and again. Make sure to check out these lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 6: Winter Dreams, poems of the Harlem Renaissance, poems by Robert Frost, The Crucible, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine, Reality Check, The Ends of the World as We Know Them, The Universe as Primal Scream
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