sapience

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sapience - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sapience \Sa"pi*ence\, n. [L. sapientia: cf. F. sapience. See
     Sapient..]
     The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
     --Cowper.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Woman, if I might sit beside your feet,
           And glean your scattered sapience.       --Tennyson.
     [1913 Webster]

sapience - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sapience
      n 1: ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding
           or common sense and insight [syn: wisdom, sapience]