judiciousness, sagacity, sagaciousness
(noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating
sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sagacity (usually uncountable, plural sagacities)
(obsolete) Keen sense of smell.
The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.
Synonyms: sagaciousness, wisdom
Source: Wiktionary
Sa*gac"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. sagacitas. See Sagacious.]
Definition: The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. Cowper. Natural sagacity improved by generous education. V. Knox.
Syn.
– Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness.
– 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
