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Webster 1913 Edition
Sagacity
Sa-gac′i-ty
,Noun.
[L.
sagacitas
. See Sagacious
.] 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. Webster 1828 Edition
Sagacity
SAGAC'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Quickness or acuteness of scent; applied to animals.2.
Quickness or acuteness of discernment or penetration; readiness of apprehension; the faculty of readily discerning and distinguishing ideas, and of separating truth from falsehood.Sagacity finds out the intermediate ideas, to discover what connection there is in each link of the chain.
Definition 2024
sagacity
sagacity
English
Noun
sagacity (usually uncountable, plural sagacities)
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Translations
quality of being sage
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