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Definitions for sagacity
səˈgæs ɪ tisagac·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernmentnoun

    the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

  2. judiciousness, sagacity, sagaciousnessnoun

    the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

Wiktionary

  1. sagacitynoun

    The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions.

  2. Etymology: From sagacité, from sagacitas, from sagax, from sagire.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sagacitynoun

    Etymology: sagacité, French; sagacitas, Latin.

    It requires too great a sagacity for vulgar minds to draw the line nicely between virtue and vice. South.

    Sagacity finds out the intermediate ideas, to discover what connection there is in each link of the chain, whereby the extremes are held together. John Locke.

    Many were eminent in former ages for their discovery of it; but though the knowledge they have left be worth our study, yet they left a great deal for the industry and sagacity of after-ages. John Locke.

ChatGPT

  1. sagacity

    Sagacity is the quality of being discerning, wise, and able to make good judgment, particularly in a matter of practical affairs. It originates from personal insight, experience, and thoughtful analysis.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sagacitynoun

    the quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sagacity in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sagacity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of sagacity in a Sentence

  1. Woodrow Wilson:

    Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

  2. James Grover Thurber:

    One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

  3. Joseph Addison:

    There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

  4. James Grover Thurber:

    The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

  5. Marianne Moore:

    Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

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