sapience
/ˈseɪpiəns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As, much Experience, is Prudence; ſo, is much Science, Sapience."
- "Mean while the Son / On his great Expedition now appeer'd, / Girt with Omnipotence, with Radiance crown'd / Of Majestie Divine, Sapience and Love / Immense, and all his Father in him shon."
- "In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects."
- "Was it that his eccentric unsentimental old sapience, primitive in its kind, saw or thought it saw something which, in contrast with the war-ship's environment, looked oddly incongruous in the Handsome Sailor?"
- "This, a solo of sapience, / This, a chantey of sophistry, / This, the sum of experiments— / I loved them until they loved me."
- "I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field."
Etymology
From Middle English sapience, from Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈseɪpiəns/
- British English: /ˈseɪpɪəns/