SAPIENCE Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

sapience

noun

ˈsā-pē-ən(t)s

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. —

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

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The astronauts snapped thousands of photos during their historic pass around the moon, shot video and recorded their personal observations to give researchers insights based on the color sensitivity of the human eye.

— William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
The team hopes the aircraft, beyond providing insight into wartime aviation, will impart wisdom regarding the real consequences of war during this time of global unrest.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026