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
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
