SAPIENCES 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 Taurus Sun harmonizes with Jupiter in your 11th House of Friendship, drawing support for bigger plans through allies, networks, and shared insight.

— Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 10 May 2026
Success at tests like puzzles and mazes, which appeared to Washburn to be the result of reasoning, or insight—observation and detection—Thorndike insisted was instead merely the result of blundering, repetition, and trial and error.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 9 May 2026