• Sapience

    Origin

    Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia.

    Full definition of sapience

    Noun

    sapience

    (usually uncountable; plural sapiences)
    1. The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
      • 2009, Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy: Animating IdeasI 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.----
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