sagacity
/səˈɡæ.sə.ti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.03 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer."
- "Immediately after the meal, when he was alone again, he set to work to examine Drayton’s papers, of which there lay quite a mass on the table near him and, leaning toward the lamp on his elbow, he weighed the meaning of each with a certain sideward sagacity of gaze, a sagacity that smiled in its self-sureness. Swiss Family Robinson- "....near the mouth of a creek, towards which all our geese and ducks betook themselves; and I, relying on their sagacity, followed in the same course.""
- "See Thesaurus:wisdom"
- "[…] this Beast [the Ichneumon] is not only enemy to the Crocodile and Asp, but also to their Egs, which she hunteth out by the sagacity of her nose, and so destroyeth them […]"
Etymology
From French sagacité, from Latin sagācitās (“sagaciousness”), from sagāx (“of quick perception, acute, sagacious”) (whence -acity), from sāgiō (“to perceive by the senses”). Equivalent to sagac(ious) + -ity.
Origin
- Source language: French