Sagacity
[sə'gæsɪtɪ] or [sə'gæsəti]
Definition
(noun.) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations.
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Definition
(n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Editor: Rae
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sagaciousness, quickness of scent.[2]. Shrewdness, acuteness, sharpness, astuteness, penetration, ingenuity, discernment, perspicacity, sense, insight, mother-wit, quick parts.
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Examples
- Its sagacity is wonderful. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I know none whose knowledge, sagacity, and impartiality qualify him so thoroughly for such a service as yours do you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mr. Pickwick, with his usual foresight and sagacity, had chosen a peculiarly desirable moment for his visit to the borough. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was in these circumstances that Edison's sagacity and breadth of business capacity came to the front. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It would be an insult to his sagacity to offer directions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Caroline no more showed such wounding sagacity or reproachful sensitiveness now than she had done when a suckling of three months old. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Finally comes one of Tycho's hunting dogs--very faithful and sagacious; he serves here as a hieroglyph of his master's nobility as well as of sagacity and fidelity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The sagacity of the man of business perceived an advantage here, and determined to hold it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I had sagacity enough to discover, that the unnatural hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Now, I have had very little pleasure at our dear Richard's lately, and your practical sagacity demonstrates why. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- 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. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Margaret's sagacity was not always displayed in a way so satisfactory to her sister. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- No one ever had more ample materials for the discrimination of the species, or could have worked on them with more zeal and sagacity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Quality and treatment were enormously dependent upon the experience and sagacity of the individual iron worker. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My sagacity was not at fault--it never is. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Vilma