Sagacity

Quick meaning: Sagacity is a noun meaning The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.

Meaning

The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) Keen sense of smell.

Example Sentences

See Thesaurus:wisdom

Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer.

[…] this Beast [the Ichneumon] is not only enemy to the Crocodile and Asp, but also to their Egs, which she hunteth out by the sagacity of her nose, and so destroyeth them […]

Immediately after the meal, when he was alone again, he set to work to examine Drayton’s papers, of which there lay quite a mass on the table near him and, leaning toward the lamp on his elbow, he weighed the meaning of each with a certain sideward sagacity of gaze, a sagacity that smiled in its self-sureness. Swiss Family Robinson- "....near the mouth of a creek, towards which all our geese and ducks betook themselves; and I, relying on their sagacity, followed in the same course."

Word Forms

• sagacities

Synonyms for sagacity

Depending on context, synonyms include wisdom, sagaciousness, discernment, judgment, judgement, judiciousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sagaciousness, discernment, judiciousness, judgment, judgement, wisdom.

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