as in insight
the ability to understand inner qualities or relationships
the kind of sapience that comes from a lifetime of experience as an educator
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Recent Examples of sapience
Some people go the other way and say that sapience alone might be enough.
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IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2025
Stories of such yearnings also illustrate a key requirement for sapience: resistance to oppression.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience, as though only the naïve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
IEEE Spectrum, 23 Jan. 2025
Stories of such yearnings also illustrate a key requirement for sapience: resistance to oppression.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience, as though only the naïve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sapience
Noun
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This is the web version of CEO Daily, a newsletter of must-read global insights from CEOs and industry leaders.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
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That breadth of insight and analysis extends from the on-court Xs and Os to team dynamics and development.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Curriculums teach about the laws and governmental acts in place that withheld education and advancement from the enslaved, but skip over the intellect and radical acts Black people achieved anyway.—
Taylor Cassidy,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Know that you are loved in all ways, especially for your wit, intellect, and personality above anything else.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Both requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the talks.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Oct. 2025
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Millions of Americans experience food sensitivities or allergies every year.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Sapience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sapience. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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