sapience means the property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why this word is great
SAPIENCE — [Noun] The quality of being sapient; the possession or capacity for profound wisdom and judgment. From Middle English sapience, from Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia ("wisdom"), from sapiens, present participle of sapere ("to be wise, to taste"). Unlike "knowledge," which is an archive of accrued facts, or "cleverness," which is the nimble application of them to a proximate problem, sapience is the slow, resonant understanding of how to weigh and use what one knows. It is the physician withholding a treatment for the sake of dignity; the elder listening to the tremor beneath a child's words; the quiet decision to let a field lie fallow. This is wisdom digested, a taste for the good that lingers after the appetite for the merely clever has faded.
noun
- The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.“As, much Experience, is Prudence; ſo, is much Science, Sapience.”