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Sapience

Sapience \Sa"pi*ence\, n. [L. sapientia: cf. F. sapience. See Sapient..] The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
--Cowper.

Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience.
--Tennyson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sapience

late 14c., "wisdom, understanding," from Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia "good taste, good sense, discernment; intelligence, wisdom," from sapiens (see sapient).

Wiktionary
sapience

n. The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.

WordNet
sapience

n. ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight [syn: wisdom]

Usage examples of "sapience".

Working from the vocabulary we accumulated when doing our sapience tests, and from basic number identification, we were able, using computers, to compile a lexicographical profile of Actual Fuzzy from the keys found in Zarathustran Fuzzy.

Honneur Esperance Noblesse Renommee Justice Diligence Equite Verite Amour Liberalite Obedience Intelligence Sapience His lordship ofAubigny smiled, and moved forward to congratulate them.

But I have such confidence in you and in your wisedome, by reason that you are come of so noble a line, and endowed with so profound sapience, and further instructed in so many holy and divine things, that you will faithfully keepe silence, and that whatsoever I shall reveale or declare unto you, you would close them within the bottome of your heart, and never discover the same : for I ensure you, the love that I beare unto you, enforceth mee to utter it.

We didn't expect to encounter sapience here, much less evidence of another space-traversing species.

O bussh unbrent, brennynge in Moyses sighte, That ravysedest doun fro the deitee Thurgh thyn humblesse, the goost that in thalighte, Of whos vertu, whan he thyn herte lighte, Conceyved was the Fadres sapience, Help me to telle it in thy reverence.

I have besought my lady's sapience On thy behalfe, to accept in game Thine inability.

Both had achieved sapience at about the same time, but the presence of readily refinable metals on the crust of the Masters' planet had given them an impetus toward technology that the Slaves lacked.

As I’m sure you’re aware, however, certain political and economic interests have taken the position that our inability to measure their actual sentience with ‘demonstrable, replicable precision’ means their sapience is no more than a legal fiction.

As I'm sure you're aware, however, certain political and economic interests have taken the position that our inability to measure their actual sentience with `demonstrable, replicable precision' means their sapience is no more than a legal fiction.

Though we have not yet encountered many nonhuman sapiences in this galaxy, there is ample evidence of their existence as empires in the past.

The fact that the sapience of these Fuzzies is still sub judice includes the presumption of its possibility.