SAPIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sapience mean? 

• SAPIENCE (noun)
  The noun SAPIENCE has 1 sense:

1. ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

  Familiarity information: SAPIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAPIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

sapience; wisdom

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)