Sagacity

Definitions

1. The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.
   uncountable, usually
2. Keen sense of smell.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Immediately after the meal, when he was alone again, he set⟳ to work⟳ to examine⟳ Drayton’s papers, of which there lay⟳ quite a mass on the table near him and, leaning toward the lamp on his elbow, he weighed the meaning of each with a certain sideward sagacity of gaze, a sagacity that smiled in its self-sureness. Swiss Family Robinson- "....near the mouth of a creek, towards which all our geese and ducks betook themselves; and I, relying on their sagacity, followed in the same course."”

“See⟳ Thesaurus:wisdom”

“[…] 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 […]”

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