SAGACIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sagaciousness mean? 

• SAGACIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun SAGACIOUSNESS has 2 senses:

1. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

2. the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

  Familiarity information: SAGACIOUSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAGACIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

discernment; judgement; judgment; sagaciousness; sagacity

Hypernyms ("sagaciousness" is a kind of...):

sapience; wisdom (ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sagaciousness"):

eye (good discernment (either visually or as if visually))

common sense; good sense; gumption; horse sense; mother wit; sense (sound practical judgment)

judiciousness (good judgment)

circumspection; discreetness; discretion; prudence (knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress)

indiscreetness; injudiciousness (lacking good judgment)

Derivation:

sagacious (acutely insightful and wise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

judiciousness; sagaciousness; sagacity

Hypernyms ("sagaciousness" is a kind of...):

wisdom; wiseness (the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight)

Derivation:

sagacious (skillful in statecraft or management)