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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
27 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sapience
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Scientists may have problem-solving skills, insight and knowledge in abundance.
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And in a bizarre flash of insight this Windy City denizen created one of the great warm weather whiskey drinks of our time.
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Odysseus is a warrior with wit and intellect, a con man and fabulist who constantly reinvents himself.
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His immediate presence was one of sharp intellect, efficiency and modesty.
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“Sapience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sapience. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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