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睿智,聪敏
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Sagacity \Sa*gac"i*ty\, n. [L. sagacitas. See {Sagacious}.]
The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of
sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration
with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell.
--Cowper.
Natural sagacity improved by generous education. --V.
Knox.
Syn: Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness.
Usage: {Sagacity}, {Penetration}. Penetration enables us to
enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to
detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to
penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables
one to guard against the designs of others, and to
turn everything to the best possible advantage.
资料来源 : WordNet®
sagacity
n 1: ability to make good judgments [syn: {sagaciousness}, {judgment},
{judgement}, {discernment}]
2: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and
evaluating [syn: {judiciousness}, {sagaciousness}]