Why “sagehood” is a great word
SAGEHOOD — [Noun] The state or condition of being a sage, a profoundly wise person. From sage (a profoundly wise person, from Old French sage, from Latin *sapius, from sapere 'to be wise') + -hood (a native English suffix forming nouns denoting state or condition). Unlike "wisdom," an abstract quality of sound judgment, or "sainthood," a state of divine election and miracle, sagehood is an earned, earthly station of integrated human understanding. It is the weathered face of one who has stopped giving advice, the quiet hearth in a house no longer visited by petitioners, and the patient, untended garden that yields precisely what it needs—the quiet triumph of perspective earned, not granted.