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sagacity

noun
/səˈɡæ.sə.ti/

Etymology

From French sagacité, from Latin sagācitās (“sagaciousness”), from sagāx (“of quick perception, acute, sagacious”), from sāgiō (“to perceive by the senses”). Equivalent to sagac(ious) + -ity.

  1. derived from sagācitās — “sagaciousness”
  2. borrowed from sagacité

Definitions

  1. The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions

    The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.

    • Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer.
    • See Thesaurus:wisdom

  2. Keen sense of smell.

    • […] this Beast [the Ichneumon] is not only enemy to the Crocodile and Asp, but also to their Egs, which she hunteth out by the sagacity of her nose, and so destroyeth them […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sagacity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sagacity02astute03shrewd04artful05clever06resourceful07ingenious

A definitional loop anchored at sagacity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at sagacity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA