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sapience

/sey-pee-uhns/US // ˈseɪ pi əns //

智慧,智慧性,经验,经验主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : great wisdom or sound judgment:He did much to inculcate the image of a good prince, demonstrating his sapience at Oxford and doing justice with rigor and compassion.
    • : the capacity to be self-aware:Language existed long before there was writing, emerging most likely at the same time as sapience, abstract thought, and the genus Homo.

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Examples

  • "They come back when they learn to play ball above the ears," retorted Bean with crisp sapience.

  • Another is an emblematic representation of the Tower of Sapience, each stone formed of some mental qualification.

  • His demure sapience was of the most intense order and it arose out of great mental excitement.

  • Artemas Ward made people laugh the moment they beheld him, by his wooden composure and indescribable sapience of demeanour.

  • "She's tremendously admired by some people," said Lady Mollie, shaking her head with a quaint air of sapience.