Added 9 October 2026
sagacity
/səˈɡæ.sə.ti/ noun
Latin root: sagācitās Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about sagacity at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations.
- The trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating.
Origin
From French sagacité, from Latin sagācitās (“sagaciousness”), from sagāx (“of quick perception, acute, sagacious”) (whence -acity), from sāgiō (“to perceive by the senses”). Equivalent to sagac(ious) + -ity.
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