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sagacity

English

Etymology

sagac(ious) +? -ity, from French sagacité, from Latin sag?cit?s (sagaciousness), from sag?x (of quick perception, acute, sagacious), from s?gi? (I perceive by the senses).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s???æs?ti/, /s???æs?ti/

Noun

sagacity (usually uncountable, plural sagacities)

  1. (obsolete) Keen sense of smell.
    • 1607, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects, London: G. Sawbridge et al., 1658, p. 352,[1]
      [] 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 []
  2. The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume 3, Chapter 15,[2]
      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.
    • 1904, M. P. Shiel, The Evil That Men Do, London: Ward, Lock & Co., Chapter ,[3]
      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."
    Synonyms: sagaciousness, wisdom

Related terms

  • sagacious

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Further reading

  • sagacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • sagacity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • sagacity at OneLook Dictionary Search

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awareness

English

Etymology

From aware +? -ness.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /??w??n?s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??w??n?s/
  • Hyphenation: aware?ness
  • Rhymes: -??(?)n?s

Noun

awareness (usually uncountable, plural awarenesses)

  1. The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
    I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness.
  2. The state or quality of being aware of something
    The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea

Synonyms

  • (state of consciousness): consciousness, wakefulness
  • (state of being aware of something): knowledge, consciousness

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