SAPIENCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)