wisdom
nounEtymology
From Middle English wisdom, from Old English wīsdōm (“wisdom”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīsadōm, from Proto-Germanic *wīsadōmaz (“wisdom”), corresponding to wise + -dom. Cognate with Scots wisdom, wysdom (“wisdom”), West Frisian wiisdom (“wisdom”), Dutch wijsdom (“wisdom”), German Weistum (“legal sentence”), Danish/Norwegian/Swedish visdom (“wisdom”), Icelandic vísdómur (“wisdom”).
Definitions
An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
A piece of wise advice.
The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
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The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different…
The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and…
The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
A group of wombats.
- It would also be difficult to get to the bottom line accurately if a wisdom of wombats ate your working papers. Both scenarios are equal in probability.
A group of owls.
- What he expected to find I cannot imagine , unless it was a wisdom of owls. What he did see and hear were telephones ringing, assistants answering them, getting up from their seats to take a book or a card from a file, returning[…]
- All of us, whether we gather into a wisp of snipes, a wisdom of owls, a wing of plovers, or remain like a single regretful priest on his knees before his God, we are one and it is not for us to decide another's fate.
Ellipsis of wisdom tooth.
- HAVING MY WISDOMS REMOVED
The Wisdom of Solomon, a book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old…
The Wisdom of Solomon, a book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
The neighborhood
- synonymacuity
- synonymastuteness
- synonymclairvoyance
- synonymdiscernment
- synonymdiscrimination
- synonymgumption
- synonyminsight
- synonymnous
- synonympenetration
- synonymperspicacity
- synonymprudence
- synonymsagaciousness
- antonymfoolishness
- antonymfolly
- antonymfoolhardiness
- antonymimprudence
- antonymstupidity
- antonymunwisdom
- neighborwise
- neighborwisehead
- neighborwiseness
- neighbormorality
- neighborintelligence
- neighborjudgement
- neighborsage
- neighborcommon sense
Derived
conventional wisdom, font of all wisdom, fount of all wisdom, in one's infinite wisdom, lip wisdom, pearl of wisdom, penny wisdom, received wisdom, salt of wisdom, Seat of Wisdom, street wisdom, Throne of Wisdom, wisdomless, wisdom of Silenus, wisdom of Solomon, wisdom of the crow, wisdom tooth
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at wisdom. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at wisdom. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at wisdom
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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