| wisdom | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. wisdom | accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment. |
| ~ cognitive content, mental object, content | the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. |
| ~ abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness, abstruseness, profoundness | wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound.; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. wisdom, wiseness | the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight. |
| ~ trait | a distinguishing feature of your personal nature. |
| ~ judiciousness, sagaciousness, sagacity | the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating. |
| ~ knowledgeability, knowledgeableness, initiation | wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge.; "his knowledgeability impressed me"; "his dullness was due to lack of initiation" |
| ~ statecraft, statesmanship, diplomacy | wisdom in the management of public affairs. |
| ~ discernment, discretion | the trait of judging wisely and objectively.; "a man of discernment" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. sapience, wisdom | ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight. |
| ~ deepness, astuteness, profoundness, profundity, depth | the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas. |
| ~ sagaciousness, sagacity, discernment, judgement, judgment | the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations. |
| ~ know-how | the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something. |
| n. (attribute) | 4. soundness, wisdom, wiseness | the quality of being prudent and sensible. |
| ~ goodness, good | that which is pleasing or valuable or useful.; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization" |
| ~ advisability | the quality of being advisable.; "they questioned the advisability of our policy" |
| ~ reasonableness | goodness of reason and judgment.; "the judiciary is built on the reasonableness of judges" |
| n. (communication) | 5. wisdom, wisdom of solomon | an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC. |
| ~ book | a major division of a long written composition.; "the book of Isaiah" |
| ~ apocrypha | 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status. |
| ~ sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature | any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom. |
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