Sapience

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The character of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; profound knowledge; also, practical wisdom; common prudence: often used ironically.
  • noun. The reasonable soul; the intellective faculty; that which distinguishes men from brutes; reason.
  • noun. The sense of taste, or intelligence compared to taste.
  • noun. The apocryphal Book of Wisdom.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
  • Word Usage
    "First of all, he claims ignorance on the part of whether or not fetuses are sentient and I was making the common error of confusing sentience with sapience, which is what I think most people consider for what has rights as his primary excuse for supporting abortion and in his words, “only the Christian Right argues against that.”"