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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sagacity \Sa*gac"i*ty\, noun [L. sagacitas. See {Sagacious}.] The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. --Cowper.
Natural sagacity improved by generous education. --V. Knox.
Syn: Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness.
Usage: {Sagacity}, {Penetration}. Penetration enables us to enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables one to guard against the designs of others, and to turn everything to the best possible advantage.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sagacity
noun
1: ability to make good judgments [syn: {sagaciousness}, {judgment}, {judgement}, {discernment}]
2: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating [syn: {judiciousness}, {sagaciousness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "sagacity": acuity, acumen, acuteness, anticipation, apperception, astuteness, background, blaseness, cogency, comprehension, contemplation, discernment, discretion, envisagement, envisionment, experience, farseeingness, farsightedness, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness, grasp, incisiveness, insight, judiciousness, longheadedness, longsightedness, looking ahead, past experience, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, practical knowledge, practice, prediction, preparation, prepublication, preview, prevision, prospect, prospection, providence, provision, prudence, readiness, sagaciousness, sageness, sapience, seasoning, sensibility, sensitivity, sophistication, tempering, trenchancy, understanding, wisdom, worldly wisdom
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