[syn: judiciousness, sagacity, sagaciousness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sagacity \Sa*gac"i*ty\, n. [L. sagacitas. See Sagacious.]
The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of
sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration
with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
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Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell.
--Cowper.
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Natural sagacity improved by generous education. --V.
Knox.
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Syn: Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness.
Usage: Sagacity, Penetration. Penetration enables us to
enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to
detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to
penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables
one to guard against the designs of others, and to
turn everything to the best possible advantage.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sagacity
n 1: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between
relations [syn: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment,
judgement, discernment]
2: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and
evaluating [syn: judiciousness, sagacity,
sagaciousness]