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sagacity

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As a noun, sagacity means the quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions.

Meanings of sagacity

4 meanings

noun

  1. The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.

  2. The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

    Similar: sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
  3. The trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

    Similar: judiciousness, sagaciousness
Older and rare meanings (1)
  1. obsoleteKeen sense of smell.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between…
noun: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evalu…
judiciousnesssagaciousness

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