'Sagacity' definitions:
Definition of 'sagacity'
(from WordNet)
noun
The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations [syn: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment]
noun
The trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating [syn: judiciousness, sagacity, sagaciousness]
Definition of 'Sagacity'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'sagacity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acuity,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- anticipation,
- apperception,
- astuteness,
- background,
- blaseness,
- cogency,
- comprehension,
- contemplation,
- discernment,
- discretion,
- envisagement,
- envisionment,
- experience,
- farseeingness,
- farsightedness,
- forecast,
- foreglance,
- foregleam,
- foreglimpse,
- forehandedness,
- foreseeing,
- foresight,
- foresightedness,
- grasp,
- incisiveness,
- insight,
- judiciousness,
- longheadedness,
- longsightedness,
- looking ahead,
- past experience,
- penetration,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- percipience,
- perspicaciousness,
- perspicacity,
- perspicuity,
- perspicuousness,
- practical knowledge,
- practice,
- prediction,
- preparation,
- prepublication,
- preview,
- prevision,
- prospect,
- prospection,
- providence,
- provision,
- prudence,
- readiness,
- sagaciousness,
- sageness,
- sapience,
- seasoning,
- sensibility,
- sensitivity,
- sophistication,
- tempering,
- trenchancy,
- understanding,
- wisdom,
- worldly wisdom