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səˈgæs ɪ tisagac·i·ty

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.1 / 7 votes

  1. sagacity

    Sharpness, acuteness, and insight, however keen, and penetration, however deep, fall short of the meaning of acumen, which implies also ability to use these qualities to advantage. There are persons of keen insight and great penetration to whom these powers are practically useless. Acumen is sharpness to some purpose, and belongs to a mind that is comprehensive as well as keen. Cleverness is a practical aptitude for study or learning. Insight and discernment are applied oftenest to the judgment of character; penetration and perspicacity to other subjects of knowledge. Sagacity is an uncultured skill in using quick perceptions for a desired end, generally in practical affairs; acumen may increase with study, and applies to the most erudite matters. Shrewdness is keenness or sagacity, often with a somewhat evil bias, as ready to take advantage of duller intellects. Perspicacity is the power to see clearly through that which is difficult or involved. We speak of the acuteness of an observer or a reasoner, the insight and discernment of a student, a clergyman, or a merchant, the sagacity of a hound, the keenness of a debater, the shrewdness of a usurer, the penetration, perspicacity, and acumen of a philosopher.

    Synonyms:
    acumen, acuteness, cleverness, discernment, insight, keenness, penetration, perspicacity, sharpness, shrewdness

    Antonyms:
    bluntness, dulness, obtuseness, stupidity

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernmentnoun

    the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

    Synonyms:
    apprehension, judging, perceptiveness, sound judgment, legal opinion, assessment, sound judgement, appreciation, judicial decision, sagaciousness, opinion, mind, judiciousness, savvy, discretion, judgement, understanding, taste, judgment, discernment, perspicacity

  2. judiciousness, sagacity, sagaciousnessnoun

    the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

    Synonyms:
    judiciousness, judgment, sagaciousness, judgement, discernment

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sagacitynoun

    Synonyms:
    sagaciousness, quickness of scent

  2. sagacitynoun

    Synonyms:
    shrewdness, acuteness, sharpness, astuteness, penetration, ingenuity, discernment, perspicacity, sense, insight, mother-wit, quick parts

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sagacitynoun

    Synonyms:
    intelligence, shrewdness, cleverness, ingenuity, wisdom

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "sagacity":

    acumen, wisdom

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How to use sagacity in a sentence?

  1. Joseph Addison:

    There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

  2. James Grover Thurber:

    One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

  3. James Grover Thurber:

    The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

  4. Woodrow Wilson:

    Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.

  5. Marianne Moore:

    Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.


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