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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The quality of being discerning, sound in judgment, and farsighted; wisdom.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state or character of being sagacious, in any sense; sagaciousness.
  2. n. Synonyms Perspicacity, etc. (see judgment), insight, motherwit. See astute and discernment.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
  2. n. the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

Etymologies

  1. From French sagacité, from Latin sagacitas ("sagaciousness"), from sagax ("of quick perception, acute, sagacious"), from sagire ("to perceive by the senses"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French sagacité, from Old French sagacite, from Latin sagācitās, quickness of perception, from sagāx, sagāc-, of keen perception; see sagacious. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • vanishedone I never fully understood my relations. Dec 20, 2008

  • sillygoose Uses: sagacious; sagaciousness Sep 6, 2008

  • quotato Gates’ lack of news or sagacity was doubly troubling for the elaborate protocol required to get in, including making people sit in the auditorium 90 minutes ahead of the speech – without so much as wireless connectivity so they could make use of the time Jan 9, 2007

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