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sagacity

Syllables: sa·ga·ci·ty/səˈɡæ.sə.ti/

sagacity noun: the quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.

Noun

sagacity (usually uncountable, plural sagacities)

  1. (usually) 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.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 15, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
    • Immediately after the meal, when he was alone again, he set to work to examine Drayton’s papers, of which there lay quite a mass on the table near him and, leaning toward the lamp on his elbow, he weighed the meaning of each with a certain sideward sagacity of gaze, a sagacity that smiled in its...
    • Swiss Family Robinson- "....near the mouth of a creek, towards which all our geese and ducks betook themselves; and I, relying on their sagacity, followed in the same course."1904, M. P. Shiel, The Evil That Men Do, London: Ward, Lock & Co., Chapter
  2. (obsolete, usually) 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 […]1607, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts, Serpents, and Insects, London: G. Sawbridge et al., published 1658, page 352

sagacity meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

sagacity in Tamil

அறிவு நுட்பம், மதிநலம், சாமர்த்தியம், புத்தி சாதுரியம், விவேகம், மதியூகம்

sagacity in Urdu

دانائی, فراست, فطرت, خرد مندی, پہنچ, ذہن

sagacity in Bengali

ব্যবহারিক কাজকর্মে প্রদর্শিত বিচক্ষণতা

sagacity in Malayalam

quality of being sage
വിവേകം vivēkaṁ

Synonyms of sagacity

Forms of sagacity

pluralsagacities

Origin of sagacity

From French sagacité, from Latin sagācitās (“sagaciousness”), from sagāx (“of quick perception, acute, sagacious”) (whence -acity), from sāgiō (“to perceive by the senses”). Equivalent to sagac(ious) + -ity.

Words that rhyme with sagacity

Questions about sagacity

What does sagacity mean?
Sagacity means the quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.
What is sagacity in Tamil?
Sagacity in Tamil is அறிவு நுட்பம், மதிநலம், சாமர்த்தியம். See Sagacity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sagacity?
Sagacity is a noun.
How do you pronounce sagacity?
Sagacity is pronounced /səˈɡæ.sə.ti/.
What is the plural of sagacity?
The plural of sagacity is sagacities.

Words near sagacity in the dictionary

  1. sagaciating
  2. sagacious
  3. sagaciously
  4. sagaciousness
  5. sagacities
  6. sagacity
  7. Sagad
  8. Sagada
  9. Sagadahoc County
  10. Sagaing
  11. Sagal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sagacity (page history and authors); sagacity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sagacity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sagacity (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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