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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Word of the Day

2 May 2024

BEQUEATH

(verb) leave or give by will after one’s death; “My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry”; “My grandfather left me his entire estate”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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