'Wisdom' definitions:
Definition of 'wisdom'
From: WordNet
noun
Accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
noun
The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight [syn: wisdom, wiseness] [ant: folly, foolishness, unwiseness]
noun
Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight [syn: wisdom, sapience]
noun
noun
An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC [syn: Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom]
Definition of 'Wisdom'
From: GCIDE
- Wisdom \Wis"dom\ (-d[u^]m), n. [AS. w[imac]sd[=o]m. See Wise, a., and -dom.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity. [1913 Webster]
- We speak also not in wise words of man's wisdom, but in the doctrine of the spirit. --Wyclif (1 Cor. ii. 13). [1913 Webster]
- Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. --Job xxviii. 28. [1913 Webster]
- It is hoped that our rulers will act with dignity and wisdom that they will yield everything to reason, and refuse everything to force. --Ames. [1913 Webster]
- Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition. [1913 Webster]
- Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. --Acts vii. 22. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Prudence; knowledge.
- Usage: Wisdom, Prudence, Knowledge. Wisdom has been defined to be "the use of the best means for attaining the best ends." "We conceive," says Whewell, " prudence as the virtue by which we select right means for given ends, while wisdom implies the selection of right ends as well as of right means." Hence, wisdom implies the union of high mental and moral excellence. Prudence (that is, providence, or forecast) is of a more negative character; it rather consists in avoiding danger than in taking decisive measures for the accomplishment of an object. Sir Robert Walpole was in many respects a prudent statesman, but he was far from being a wise one. Burke has said that prudence, when carried too far, degenerates into a "reptile virtue," which is the more dangerous for its plausible appearance. Knowledge, a more comprehensive term, signifies the simple apprehension of facts or relations. "In strictness of language," says Paley, " there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom; wisdom always supposing action, and action directed by it." [1913 Webster]
- Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Wisdom tooth, the last, or back, tooth of the full set on each half of each jaw in man; -- familiarly so called, because appearing comparatively late, after the person may be supposed to have arrived at the age of wisdom. See the Note under Tooth, 1. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wisdom'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adage,
- advantage,
- advantageousness,
- advisability,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- apprehension,
- appropriateness,
- axiom,
- beneficialness,
- broad-mindedness,
- byword,
- catchword,
- clairvoyance,
- collected sayings,
- command,
- comprehension,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- convenience,
- current saying,
- decency,
- depth,
- desirability,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- erudition,
- expedience,
- expediency,
- expression,
- feasibility,
- fitness,
- fittingness,
- foreknowledge,
- fruitfulness,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- good sense,
- good understanding,
- grasp,
- grip,
- gumption,
- horse sense,
- ideation,
- information,
- insight,
- intellection,
- intelligence,
- judgment,
- judiciousness,
- know-it-all,
- lore,
- mastery,
- maxim,
- mellow wisdom,
- mental grasp,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- opportuneness,
- oracle,
- percentage,
- perspicacity,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- politicness,
- precept,
- precognition,
- prehension,
- prescript,
- profit,
- profitability,
- profoundness,
- profundity,
- propriety,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- prudence,
- rightness,
- ripe wisdom,
- sagaciousness,
- sagacity,
- sageness,
- saneness,
- sapience,
- savvy,
- saw,
- saying,
- science,
- seasonableness,
- seasoned understanding,
- seemliness,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- shrewdness,
- sloka,
- smart,
- smarty,
- smarty-pants,
- Sophia,
- sound understanding,
- stock saying,
- suitability,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- timeliness,
- understanding,
- usefulness,
- verse,
- wisdom literature,
- wise guy,
- wise saying,
- wiseacre,
- wisecracker,
- wisehead,
- wiseness,
- wisenheimer,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom,
- worthwhileness
Wisdom, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Wisdom, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000) :
114
Housing Units (2000) :
88
Land area (2000) :
0.949779 sq. miles (2.459917 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.007316 sq. miles (0.018949 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.957095 sq. miles (2.478866 sq. km)
FIPS code :
81250
Located within :
Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location :
45.616120 N, 113.449742 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
59761
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.