Thesaurus: sagacity

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1. n. The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
2. n. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
3. n. the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating
4. 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. -- 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.
5. The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of senseperceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness ofjudgment; shrewdness.Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. Cowper.Natural sagacity improved by generous education. V. Knox.
6. n:100 n. the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations