sagacity

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

judiciousness judgment penetration discernment judgement shrewdness sagaciousness esprit sapience knowledge policy reason experience sense enlightenment
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Antonyms

density mistake ignorance madness aberration insanity
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Hypernyms

sapience wisdom wiseness

Hyponyms

sense prudence eye discretion gumption common sense

Related terms

sagacious

Phrases with the word

battlefield sagacity

Examples

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. Friedrich Nietzsche

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. Leo Rosten

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. Thorstein Veblen

The name ‘London Banker' had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society. Walter Bagehot

... We now come to a numerous tribe, that seem to make approaches even to humanity; that bear an awkward resemblance to the human form, and discover the same faint efforts at intellectual sagacity. John Wesley

The shadow does not follow the body more closely than eloquence accompanies sagacity. Philipp Melanchthon

Close letter words and terms

sagacious sagaciously sagaciousness Sagadahoc County Sagaing Sagal