sagacity : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sagacity	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sagacity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sagacity n the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations Synonym(s): sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating Synonym(s): judiciousness, sagacity, sagaciousness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sagacity \Sagac"ity\, n. [L. sagacitas. See {Sagacious}.] The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. --Cowper. Natural sagacity improved by generous education. --V. Knox. Syn: Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness. Usage: {Sagacity}, {Penetration}. Penetration enables us to enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables one to guard against the designs of others, and to turn everything to the best possible advantage.