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English noun: wisdom | |||
| 1. | wisdom (cognition) accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cognitive content, content, mental object | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness | ||
| 2. | wisdom (attribute) the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight | ||
| Synonyms | wiseness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | trait | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | diplomacy, discernment, discretion, initiation, judiciousness, knowledgeability, knowledgeableness, sagaciousness, sagacity, statecraft, statesmanship | ||
| Antonyms | folly, foolishness, unwiseness | ||
| 3. | wisdom (cognition) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | ||
| Synonyms | sapience | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | know-how | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | astuteness, deepness, depth, discernment, judgement, judgment, profoundness, profundity, sagaciousness, sagacity | ||
| 4. | wisdom (attribute) the quality of being prudent and sensible | ||
| Synonyms | soundness, wiseness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | good, goodness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | advisability, reasonableness | ||
| Antonyms | unsoundness | ||
| 5. | Wisdom (communication) an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC | ||
| Synonyms | Wisdom of Solomon | ||
| Instance hypernym | book | ||
| Part meronym | Apocrypha, sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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