sagacity means the quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 71 out of 100.
Why this word is great
SAGACITY — [Noun] The quality of being keenly perceptive, insightful, and showing sound judgment. From the Latin sagācitās ("acuteness of perception"), from sagāx ("keen-witted, prudent"), from sāgiō ("to perceive keenly"). Unlike "wisdom," which implies the gravitas of accumulated experience, or "acumen," which denotes a narrow, instrumental sharpness, sagacity is the swift, intuitive faculty for sensing the shape of things to come from the faintest present clues. It is the old farmer reading a storm in the flight of crows, the diplomat parsing a shift in policy from a single omitted honorific, the quiet friend who perceives the unspoken grief behind a practiced smile—a lonely kind of clarity, a silent blade against life’s inherent disorder.
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- The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.“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.”
- Keen sense of smell.“[…] 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 […]”