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SAPIENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
Synonyms:
sapience; wisdom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sapience" is a kind of...):
know-how (the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sapience"):
astuteness; deepness; depth; profoundness; profundity (the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas)
discernment; judgement; judgment; sagaciousness; sagacity (the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations)
Derivation:
sapient (acutely insightful and wise)
