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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


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. [1913 Webster] Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] Natural sagacity improved by generous education. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
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]