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sagacity n. 睿智,聪敏 睿智,聪敏 sagacity n 1: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations [ synonym: { sagacity}, { sagaciousness}, { judgment}, { judgement}, { discernment}] 2: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating [ synonym: { judiciousness}, { sagacity}, { sagaciousness}] Sagacity \ Sa* gac" i* ty\, n. [ L. sagacitas. See { Sagacious}.] The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. [ 1913 Webster] Some [ brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] Natural sagacity improved by generous education. -- V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness. Usage: { Sagacity}, { Penetration}. Penetration enables us to enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables one to guard against the designs of others, and to turn everything to the best possible advantage. [ 1913 Webster] 67 Moby Thesaurus words for " sagacity": acuity, acumen, acuteness, anticipation, apperception, astuteness, background, blaseness, cogency, comprehension, contemplation, discernment, discretion, envisagement, envisionment, experience, farseeingness, farsightedness, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness, grasp, incisiveness, insight, judiciousness, longheadedness, longsightedness, looking ahead, past experience, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, practical knowledge, practice, prediction, preparation, prepublication, preview, prevision, prospect, prospection, providence, provision, prudence, readiness, sagaciousness, sageness, sapience, seasoning, sensibility, sensitivity, sophistication, tempering, trenchancy, understanding, wisdom, worldly wisdom |
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