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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wisdom, sapiencenoun

    ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

Wiktionary

  1. sapiencenoun

    The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.

  2. Etymology: sapience, from sapientia.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sapiencenoun

    Wisdom; sageness; knowledge.

    Etymology: sapience, Fr. sapientia, Latin.

    By sapience, I mean what the ancients did by philosophy; the habit or disposition of mind which importeth the love of wisdom. Nehemiah Grew.

    Ne only they that dwell in lowly dust,
    The sons of darkness and of ignorance;
    But they whom thou, great Jove, by doom unjust,
    Did’st to the top of honour earst advance:
    They now, puft up with’s deignful insolence,
    Despise the brood of blessed sapience. Edmund Spenser.

    King James, of immortal memory, among all the lovers and admirers of divine and human sapience, accomplished at Theobalds his own days on earth. Henry Wotton.

    Because enterprises guided by ill counsels have equal success to those by the best judgment conducted, therefore had violence the same external figure with sapience. Walter Raleigh.

    Sapience and love
    Immense, and all his father in him shone. John Milton.

    O sov’reign, virtuous, precious of all trees
    In Paradise! of operation blest
    To sapience. John Milton.

    Many a wretch in Bedlam,
    Though perhaps among the rout
    He wildly flings his filth about,
    Still has gratitude and sapience
    To spare the folks that give him ha’pence. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. sapience

    Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to contemplate and act productively using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence.Wisdom has been defined in many different ways, including several distinct approaches to assess the characteristics attributed to wisdom.

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  1. sapience

    Sapience is the ability to think, learn, reason, and make decisions, usually associated with the level of intelligence and comprehension demonstrated by human beings. This quality encompasses wisdom, judgment, and awareness, and is often used to describe higher cognitive processes such as problem-solving, self-awareness, and high levels of communication. This term is frequently used in discussions about artificial intelligence, consciousness, and animal intelligence.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sapiencenoun

    the quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge

  2. Etymology: [L. sapientia: cf. F. sapience. See Sapient..]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sapience

    sā′pi-ens, n. discernment: wisdom: knowledge: reason.—adjs. Sā′pient, wise: discerning: sagacious, sometimes used ironically; Sāpien′tial.—adv. Sā′piently. [L. sapiens, sapientis, pr.p. of sapĕre, to be wise.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sapience in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sapience in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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