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Sagacity

The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.

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Circumspection 76% connected

Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.

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Common sense 76% connected

See Common sense, under Sense.

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Discretion 76% connected

Disjunction; separation.

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Eye 76% connected

A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

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Gumption 76% connected

Capacity; shrewdness; common sense.

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Injudiciousness 76% connected

The quality of being injudicious; want of sound judgment; indiscretion.

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Judiciousness 76% connected

The quality or state of being judicious; sagacity; sound judgment.

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Prudence 76% connected

The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.

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Sense 76% connected

A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the bod…

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Sapience 76% connected

The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.

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Wisdom 76% connected

The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment…

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Wiseness 76% connected

Wisdom.

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Sagacious 74% connected

Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.

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Sagacious 74% connected

Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.

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Discernment 92% connected

The act of discerning.

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Judgement 92% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgment 92% connected

The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, wh…

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Judiciousness 92% connected

The quality or state of being judicious; sagacity; sound judgment.

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