Synonyms for WISDOM
ˈwɪz dəmwis·dom

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1. wisdomnoun

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly

2. wisdomnoun

   An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness

3. wisdomnoun

   A piece of wise advice.

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly

4. wisdomnoun

   The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness

5. wisdomnoun

   The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness

6. wisdomnoun

   The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly

7. wisdomnoun

   The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   attainment, depth, discernment, discretion, enlightenment, erudition, foresight, information, insight, judgment, judiciousness, knowledge, learning, prescience, profundity, prudence, reason, reason, reasonableness, sagacity, sense, skill, understanding

   Antonyms:
   absurdity, error, fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, misjudgment, nonsense, senselessness, silliness, stupidity

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1. wisdom

   Synonyms:
   knowledge, erudition, learning, enlightenment, attainment, information, discernment, judgment, sagacity, prudence, light

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiterateness, sciolism, indiscernment, injudiciousness, folly, imprudence, darkness, empiricism, smattering, inacquaintance

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wisdomnoun

   accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

   Synonyms:
   sapience, wiseness, soundness

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness, unwiseness

2. wisdom, wisenessnoun

   the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight

   Synonyms:
   wisdom, sapience, wiseness, soundness

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly, unwiseness

3. wisdom, sapiencenoun

   ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

   Synonyms:
   wisdom, sapience, wiseness, soundness

   Antonyms:
   unwiseness, folly, foolishness

4. wisdom, wiseness, soundnessnoun

   the quality of being prudent and sensible

   Synonyms:
   firmness, wisdom, sapience, wiseness, soundness

   Antonyms:
   folly, unwiseness, foolishness

5. Wisdom 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

   Synonyms:
   sapience, wiseness, soundness

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness, unwiseness

Matched Categories

1. • Book
   • Cognitive Content
   • Good
   • Know-how
   • Trait

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1. wisdomnoun

   Synonyms:
   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 ends

2. wisdomnoun

   Synonyms:
   knowledge, erudition, learning, attainment, information, enlightenment

3. wisdomnoun

   Synonyms:
   reasonableness, reason, right or just view

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1. wisdomnoun

   Synonyms:
   lore, learning, sapience, erudition, knowledge, enlightenment

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1. 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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How to use WISDOM in a sentence?

1. Proverb:

   Proverbs are the people's wisdom.

2. Elbert Hubbard:

   Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day -- wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

3. Cary Summers:

   Benjamin Franklin wrote. I firmly believe... without Benjamin Franklin concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel, a reference to the Old Testament biblical story that didn't end well for the builders. The museum also showcases the Bible’s influence on world history, culture, science, art and literature. One section of the museum is devoted to the Bible in America, its influence on presidents and the Founding Fathers like Benjamin Franklin, who quoted the Bible's book to explain the importance of the country's founders to abide by the book's wisdom. Cary Summers said it's important people have information about a book that has had such tremendous impact on the Western world. And it will be presented, warts and all, of how people used – and abused – its precepts. One of the goals of the museum is to put Gutenberg Bible back in the center of conversation.

4. Sir Francis Bacon:

   There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

5. Chinese Proverb:

   The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.