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Synonyms for wisdom
ˈwɪz dəmwis·dom
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Wiktionary
wisdomnoun
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sagacityAntonyms:
foolishness, follywisdomnoun
An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
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folly, foolishnesswisdomnoun
A piece of wise advice.
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foolishness, follywisdomnoun
The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
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folly, foolishnesswisdomnoun
The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
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folly, foolishnesswisdomnoun
The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
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foolishness, follywisdomnoun
The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
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foolishness, folly
English Synonyms and Antonyms
wisdom
Enlightenment, erudition, information, knowledge, learning, and skill are acquired, as by study or practise. Insight, judgment, profundity or depth, reason, sagacity, sense, and understanding are native qualities of mind, tho capable of increase by cultivation. The other qualities are on the border-line. Wisdom has been defined as "the right use of knowledge," or "the use of the most important means for attaining the best ends," wisdom thus presupposing knowledge for its very existence and exercise. Wisdom is mental power acting upon the materials that fullest knowledge gives in the most effective way. There may be what is termed "practical wisdom" that looks only to material results; but in its full sense, wisdom implies the highest and noblest exercise of all the faculties of the moral nature as well as of the intellect. Prudence is a lower and more negative form of the same virtue, respecting outward and practical matters, and largely with a view of avoiding loss and injury; wisdom transcends prudence, so that while the part of prudence is ordinarily also that of wisdom, cases arise, as in the exigencies of business or of war, when the highest wisdom is in the disregard of the maxims of prudence. Judgment, the power of forming decisions, especially correct decisions, is broader and more positive than prudence, leading one to do, as readily as to refrain from doing; but judgment is more limited in range and less exalted in character than wisdom; to say of one that he displayed good judgment is much less than to say that he manifested wisdom. Skill is far inferior to wisdom, consisting largely in the practical application of acquired knowledge, power, and habitual processes, or in the ingenious contrivance that makes such application possible. In the making of something perfectly useless there may be great skill, but no wisdom. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; KNOWLEDGE; MIND; PRUDENCE; SAGACIOUS; SKILFUL.
Compare synonyms for ABSURD; IDIOCY.
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attainment, depth, discernment, discretion, enlightenment, erudition, foresight, information, insight, judgment, judiciousness, knowledge, learning, prescience, profundity, prudence, reason, reason, reasonableness, sagacity, sense, skill, understandingAntonyms:
absurdity, error, fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, misjudgment, nonsense, senselessness, silliness, stupidity
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
wisdom
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knowledge, erudition, learning, enlightenment, attainment, information, discernment, judgment, sagacity, prudence, lightAntonyms:
ignorance, illiterateness, sciolism, indiscernment, injudiciousness, folly, imprudence, darkness, empiricism, smattering, inacquaintance
Princeton's WordNet
wisdomnoun
accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
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sapience, wiseness, soundnessAntonyms:
folly, foolishness, unwisenesswisdom, wisenessnoun
the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
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foolishness, folly, unwisenesswisdom, sapiencenoun
ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
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unwiseness, folly, foolishnesswisdom, wiseness, soundnessnoun
the quality of being prudent and sensible
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firmness, sapience, wiseness, soundnessAntonyms:
folly, unwiseness, foolishnessWisdom of Solomon, Wisdomnoun
an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
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sapience, wiseness, soundnessAntonyms:
folly, foolishness, unwiseness
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
wisdomnoun
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sense, sapience, sagacity, judgment, judiciousness, prescience, discernment, depth, solidity, ballast, good sense, common sense, plain sense, enlarged views, reach or compass of thought, readiness in adapting means to endswisdomnoun
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knowledge, erudition, learning, attainment, information, enlightenmentwisdomnoun
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reasonableness, reason, right or just view
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "wisdom":
al-hekma, ji-hye, wise, al-hikmah, prudence, chih-hui, sagacity, intelligence, acumen, intellectual, intellect, level-headedness, sanity
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#1568 | sense | |
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#2499 | depth | |
#2526 | intelligence | |
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#4391 | skill | |
#4456 | judgment | |
#4791 | insight | |
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#19073 | intellect | |
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#46133 | firmness | |
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How to use wisdom in a sentence?
Education and knowledge are the only asset that you can not loose and no one can take it away from you (From the wisdom of my late grandmother Zahra Belfkih)
To those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of President Obama acting where Congress have failed, I have one answer. Pass a bill.
Sophocles, Tiresias. Oedipus the King 315:
How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Translations for wisdom
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- حِكْمَةٌ, حكمةArabic
- му́драсцьBelarusian
- мъдростBulgarian
- saviesaCatalan, Valencian
- moudrostCzech
- мѫдростьOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- visdomDanish
- WeisheitGerman
- σοφίαGreek
- saĝecoEsperanto
- sabiduríaSpanish
- tarkusEstonian
- حکمت, خردمندی, خردPersian
- viisausFinnish
- vísdómurFaroese
- sagesseFrench
- eagnaIrish
- gliocasScottish Gaelic
- sabedoría, sabenzaGalician
- חוכמהHebrew
- बुद्धिमत्ताHindi
- bölcsességHungarian
- խոհեմություն, իմաստությունArmenian
- kebijaksanaanIndonesian
- sajesoIdo
- vísdómurIcelandic
- saggezza, senso, senno, discernimentoItalian
- חוכמהHebrew
- 知恵, 英知, 知識Japanese
- គតិបណ្ឌិតKhmer
- ಜ್ಞಾನKannada
- 지혜Korean
- sapientia, sagacitas, sapientia,, scientiaLatin
- gudrībaLatvian
- мудростMacedonian
- ဉာဏ်, ဝိဇ္ဇာ, ဉာဏBurmese
- wijsheidDutch
- visdomNorwegian
- ił ééhózinNavajo, Navaho
- mądrośćPolish
- sapiência, sagacidade, bom senso, sabedoria, orientaçãoPortuguese
- judecată, înțelepciune, sapiențăRomanian
- му́дростьRussian
- мудрост, mudrostSerbo-Croatian
- múdrosťSlovak
- modróstSlovene
- visdomSwedish
- hekima, falsafa, mwanafalsafaSwahili
- ஞானம்Tamil
- జ్ఞానంTelugu
- ความฉลาดThai
- bilgelik, hikmet, akılTurkish
- му́дрістьUkrainian
- حکمتUrdu
- sự khôn ngoanVietnamese
- חכמהYiddish
- 智慧Chinese
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