sagacity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful. uncountable,usually
    — Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even your sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer.
  2. Keen sense of smell. obsolete,uncountable,usually
    — […] this Beast [the Ichneumon] is not only enemy to the Crocodile and Asp, but also to their Egs, which she hunteth out by the sagacity of her nose, and so destroyeth them […]

词形变化

sagacities plural

词汇关系

近义词
wisdom
相关词
sagacious

词源

From French sagacité, from Latin sagācitās (“sagaciousness”), from sagāx (“of quick perception, acute, sagacious”), from sāgiō (“to perceive by the senses”). Equivalent to sagac(ious) + -ity.
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