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/ˈseɪpiəns/ · noun
The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom..
As, much Experience, is Prudence; ſo, is much Science, Sapience.
Mean while the Son / On his great Expedition now appeer'd, / Girt with Omnipotence, with Radiance crown'd / Of Majestie Divine, Sapience and Love / Immense, and all his Father in him shon.
In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.
Was it that his eccentric unsentimental old sapience, primitive in its kind, saw or thought it saw something which, in contrast with the war-ship's environment, looked oddly incongruous in the Handsome Sailor?
This, a solo of sapience, / This, a chantey of sophistry, / This, the sum of experiments— / I loved them until they loved me.
I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.
Use sapience when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sapience means The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom..
Common synonyms include wisdom.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
As, much Experience, is Prudence; ſo, is much Science, Sapience.
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