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Definition: Sapience |
SapienceNoun1. Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sapience" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Sapience \Sa"pi*ence\, noun. [Latin expression sapientia: compare to the French expression sapience. See Sapient..]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SapienceSynonym: wisdom (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intelligence Wisdom | Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sapience |
| Non-English Usage: "Sapience" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (sapience, sobering). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sapience shaman | 7 |
china.com sapience | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sapience"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | urtësi (docility, ductility, meekness, prudence, wisdom). (various references) | |
Arabic | حكمة (aphorism, discreetness, foresight, maxim, policy, proverb, prudence, sagacity, say, sobering, wholesomeness, wisdom), رجاحة العقل (prudence). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | велемъдрие, мъдрост (oracle, sentence, wisdom), преценка (adjudgment, appraisal, assessment, calculation, criticism, estimate, estimation, judgement, opinion, pronouncement, sight, valuation, verdict). (various references) | |
Czech | moudrost (wisdom). (various references) | |
French | sapience. (various references) | |
German | Weisheit (sagacity, sageness, saw, wisdom, wise saying). (various references) | |
Greek | σοφία (learning, sageness, wisdom), μάθηση (learning, lore, practice, practise). (various references) | |
Hungarian | okosság (astuteness, brightness, cleverness, discrimination, prudence, sagacity, shrewdness). (various references) | |
Italian | saggezza (cleverness, sagaciousness, sageness, wisdom). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | サハラ (sabbatical leave, safari, safari jacket, safari look, safari park, safari rally, Sahara desert, sahel, sapphire, Saturday, savanna, savarin, suffix, supper, supper club, survival, survival foods, survival manual, survival wear). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | サ"エンス . (various references) | |
Manx | tastaght (understanding). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apiencesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sapiência, sagacidade aparente, sagacidade (acumen, adroitness, apprehensiveness, canniness, deepness, freehearted, policy, sagacity, wisdom, wit), sabedoria (erudition, knowledge, scholarship, wisdom), falsa sabedoria. (various references) | |
Romanian | cuminţenie (cleverness, discretion, reason, reasonableness, sense, seriousness, wisdom), înţelepciune (discretion, philosophy, rationality, reason, sagacity, sobriety, wisdom). (various references) | |
Russian | мудрость (sageness, wisdom). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | razum (intellect, nous, reason, wit). (various references) | |
Spanish | sapiencia (cleverness, sagaciousness, sageness, wisdom). (various references) | |
Swedish | förnumstighet. (various references) | |
Thai | ความฉลา" (brain, intelligence, sageness). (various references) | |
Turkish | zekâ (acuity, acumen, acuteness, brain, brains, cleverness, cuteness, deepness, gray matter, grey matter, intelligence, mental, mentality, nous, penetration, quick wit, sagacity, senses, understanding, wit), ukalâlık (pedantry), bilmişlik (sophistication), akıl (advice, bean, brain, chump, comprehension, consciousness, gray matter, grey matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, loaf, memory, mental, mind, nous, prudence, psyche, reason, senses, strength of mind, wisdom, wit). (various references) | |
Ukranian | розумність (rationality, sanity), мудрість (oracularity, wisdom), правильне судження. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tưởng l khôn ngoan, sự l m ra vẻ khôn ngoan, sự học đòi khôn ngoan. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sapience": sapiences. (additional references) | |
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"Sapience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apience, saience, sapein, sapien, sapiences, sapientes, sapinense, spiece. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sapience" (pronounced 'Sa"pi*ence'): Abhorrence, Abscondence, Absence, Absistence, Abstinence, Accedence, Accidence, Accrescence, Acquiescence, Acturience, Adherence, Adolescence, Affluence, Albescence, Altiloquence, Antecedence, Apparence, Appetence, Arborescence, Armipotence, Beneficence, Benevolence, Blandiloquence, Breviloquence, By-dependence, Calescence, Calorescence, Candescence, Centrifugence, Centripetence, Circumfluence, Circumjacence, Clairaudience, Clarence, Clemence, Coalescence, Coexistence, Cognoscence, Coincidence, Concrescence, Concupiscence, Concurrence, Condolence, Conference, Confidence, Confluence, Congruence, Conscience, Consequence, Consilience, Contingence, Correspondence, Crapulence, Crescence, Decence, Decidence, Decurrence, Deference, Deficience, Dehiscence, Deliquescence, Delitescence, Demicadence, Dependence, Desinence, Despondence, Deterrence, Detumescence, Difference, Diffidence, Disconvenience, Disobedience, Dispence, Disreverence, Dissidence, Efflorescence, Effluence, Effulgence, Egence, Eloquence, Emergence, Eminence, Emollescence, -ence, Evanescence, Exacerbescence, Excandescence, Excellence, Excrescence, Exhalence, Exigence, Existence, Experience, Exrerience, Extumescence, Faience, Fatiscence, Fayence, Feculence, Fervence, Flocculence, Florence, florescence, Flower-fence, Fluence, Forefence, fourpence, frequence, Frondescence, Fructescence, grandiloquence, Graveolence, hence, Herehence, Hyalescence, Ignipotence, imminence, impatience, IMPENITENCE, impertinence, IMPROVIDENCE, imprudence, impudence, Inabstinence, incalescence, incandescence, Incoalescence, Incoexistence, Incoincidence, Incongruence, inconsequence, Inconsistence, incurrence, Indecence, Indehiscence, Independence, indifference, indigence, Indiligence, indolence, Ineffervescence, Inevidence, inexperience, inference, inflorescence, innocence, Inobedience, Inscience, Insipience, insistence, Insomnolence, Insufficience, intelligence, Intercedence, Intercidence, Intercurrence, interdependence, interference, intermittence, intumescence, Inturgescence, Invalescence, iridescence, irreverence, jurisprudence, juvenescence, Lactescence, Lapidescence, Latence, Latescence, Lingence, Longiloquence, luminescence, Lutulence, magnificence, magniloquence, maleficence, Maleficience, malevolence, Mellifluence, Mill-sixpence, Misadvertence, Misconsequence, Misintelligence, Misobedience, Multiloquence, Multipresence, Multivalence, Negligence, Nescience, Ninepence, Nonacquiescence, Noncoincidence, Nonconcurrence, Nonexistence, Nonobedience, Nonresidence, Obmutescence, Obsequience, Obsolescence, Occurrence, Omnipresence, Omniscience, Opalescence, Opulence, Overconfidence, Overinfluence, Pendence, Penitence, Perspicience, Pestilence, Petrescence, Phosphorescence, Pluripresence, Postexistence, Postponence, Potence, Preaudience, Preeminence, Preexistence, Preference, Prefidence, Prescience, Presence, Presidence, Pretendence, Prevalence, Prevenience, Prodigence, Profluence, Prospicience, Provenience, Providence, Prudence, Pubescence, Pulverulence, Pungence, Putrescence, Quadrivalence, Quantivalence, Ramollescence, Recumbence, Reemergence, Reexperience, reference, Reflorescence, Regence, Regredience, Rejuvenescence, reminiscence, renascence, residence, Resipiscence, resurgence, reticence, Revalescence, Revirescence, Rubescence, salience, Self-abhorrence, self-confidence, self-defence, Self-evidence, Self-existence, self-indulgence, Self-reverence, senescence, sequence, sixpence, Somniloquence, Spence, Spinescence, Spumescence, Stultiloquence, submergence, subsistence, Sufficience, Superconsequence, Supercrescence, Superexcellence, Superexcrescence, Superfluence, superintendence, Tangence, Tendence, Tetravalence, thence, Thermoluminescence, threepence, Torpescence, Totipresence, Transcurrence, transference, Transferrence, transparence, Trivalence, tumescence, turbulence, Twelvepence, twopence, Unbenevolence, Unconfidence, Unexperience, Unfence, Unintelligence, Univalence, Unobedience, Unpatience, Unprudence, Unreverence, Unscience, Urgence, Vaniloquence, Vehemence, Virescence, Viridescence, Vitrescence, Warence, Whence. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: inscape. | |
-2 letters: apices, apiece, apneic, casein, encase, escape, incase, nieces, panics, peaces, peasen, pecans, pieces, seance, seneca, specie, spence, spicae. | |
-3 letters: acnes, anise, aspen, aspic, cains, canes, capes, cease, cense, cepes, cines, epics, napes, neaps, neeps, niece, nipas, paces, pains, paise, panes, panic, peace, peans, pease, pecan, peens, peins, peise, pence, penes, penis, pians, picas, piece, pinas, pines, saice, scape, scena, scene, seine, sepia, sepic, since, sneap, snipe, space, spean, spica, spice, spine. | |
-4 letters: aces, acne, ains, anes, anis, apes, apse, asci, cain, cane, cans, cape, caps, case, cees, cepe, ceps, cine, ease, epic, ices, nape, naps, neap, neep, nice, nipa, nips, pace, pacs, pain, pane, pans, pase, pean, peas, pecs, peen, pees, pein, pens, pian, pias, pica, pice, pics, pies, pina, pine, pins, sain, sane, scan, seen, seep, sene, sice, sine, sipe, snap, snip, spae, span, spec, spic, spin. | |
-5 letters: ace, ain, ais, ane, ani, ape, asp, can, cap, cee, cep, cis, ens, ice, ins, nae, nap, nee, nip, pac, pan, pas, pea, pec, pee, pen, pes, pia, pic, pie, pin, pis, psi, sac, sae, sap, sea, sec, see, sei, sen, sic, sin, sip, spa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: patencies, patiences, peaceniks, sapiences. | |
+2 letters: appendices, epicureans, impedances, interspace, peccancies, percalines, phenacites, plasticene, sapiencies, shankpiece. | |
+3 letters: appetencies, apprentices, campinesses, carpentries, cephalexins, chimpanzees, emancipates, impatiences, inescapable, interspaced, interspaces, pacesetting, parcenaries, pentarchies, petulancies, phenacaines, phenacetins, plangencies, plasticenes, preachiness, precreasing, prefinances, pregnancies, shankpieces, specialness, transpierce. | |
+4 letters: cheeseparing, compensative, deprecations, displacement, encephalitis, epicureanism, expectancies, expectations, impeachments, inappetences, inspectorate, intraspecies, kneecappings, mantelpieces, misplacement, narcolepsies, patchinesses, peacemakings, pectinaceous, pentazocines, permanencies, placidnesses, poeticalness, precessional, predeceasing, predicaments, repugnancies, supercabinet, transpierced, transpierces. | |
+5 letters: acceptingness, affenpinscher, anencephalies, antipesticide, apperceptions, cerebrospinal, cheeseparings, complacencies, conceptualise, coparcenaries, depreciations, diencephalons, disappearance, discrepancies, displacements, dodecaphonies, encyclopedias, epicureanisms, graphicnesses, impermanences, incapableness, inoperculates, inspectorates, intemperances, intercompares, leprechaunish, letterspacing, mesencephalic, misplacements, paunchinesses, peacekeepings, penicillinase, pertinacities, porcelainizes, preachinesses, preanesthetic, precipitances, predominances, presanctified, proteinaceous, recuperations, scenographies, scrappinesses, semiporcelain, specialnesses, spermatogenic, splenetically, superagencies, supercabinets, terpsichorean, typicalnesses, unspecialized, unspecifiable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 70 69 65 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .--. .. . -. -.-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01110000 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a p i e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0070 0069 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367827571806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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