SAPIENCE

wisdom, sapience

(noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sapience (usually uncountable, plural sapiences)

The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.

Source: Wiktionary


Sa"pi*ence, n. Etym: [L. sapientia: cf. F. sapience. See Sapient..]

Definition: The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Cowper. Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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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.

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