Sapience - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Sapience :  (noun)

1: ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight [syn: wisdom]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Sapience : \Sa"pi*ence\, n. [L. sapientia: cf. F. sapience. See Sapient..] The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. --Cowper.

Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience. --Tennyson.

Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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