Sapience
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈseɪpiəns/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sapience is a noun meaning The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
Meaning
The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
Example Sentences
As, much Experience, is Prudence; ſo, is much Science, Sapience.
This, a solo of sapience, / This, a chantey of sophistry, / This, the sum of experiments— / I loved them until they loved me.
In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.
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.
Word Forms
- sapiences
Synonyms for sapience
Depending on context, synonyms include wisdom.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wisdom, sagacity, sageliness, sagaciousness, discernment, wiseness.
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