sapience

Examples of sapience in a sentence

• In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.1886 [1882], Henry James, The Point of View, London: Macmillan and Co.:
• This, a solo of sapience, / This, a chantey of sophistry, / This, the sum of experiments— / I loved them until they loved me.1926, Dorothy Parker, “Ballade at Thirty-Five”, in The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker, New York: The Modern Library, published 1936...
• I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.2009, Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas:

Forms of sapience

Origin of sapience

From Middle English sapience, from Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia.

Words formed from sapience

• insipience

Questions about sapience

What does sapience mean?

Sapience means the property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.

How do you use sapience in a sentence?

In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.

What part of speech is sapience?

Sapience is a noun.

How do you pronounce sapience?

Sapience is pronounced /ˈseɪpiəns/ (US).

What is the plural of sapience?

The plural of sapience is sapiences.