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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wisdom |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, brains, clear thinking, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, experience, foresight, good judgment, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, levelheadedness, perceptiveness, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, sageness, sapience, sense, shrewdness, understanding |
| Main Entry: | scholarship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | ability, awareness, cognition, comprehension, discernment, education, erudition, expertise, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, know-how, learnedness, learning, lore, philosophy, schooling, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, perception |
| Synonyms: | ability, appreciation, atmosphere, aura, brains, capacity, clear-headedness, cleverness, cognizance, common sense, consciousness, discernment, discrimination, feel, feeling, gumption*, imagination, impression, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mentality, mind, premonition, presentiment, prudence, quickness, reason, reasoning, recognition, sagacity, sanity, sentiment, sharpness, smarts, soul, spirit, tact, thought, understanding, wisdom, wit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sensibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsiveness; ability to feel |
| Synonyms: | affection, appreciation, awareness, discernment, emotion, feeling, gut reaction, heart*, insight, intuition, judgment, keenness, perceptiveness, rationale, sensation, sense, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment, susceptibility, taste, vibes |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference, insensibility, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finesse, thoughtfulness |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, address, adroitness, amenity, aptness, care, common sense, consideration, control, courtesy, delicacy, delicatesse, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, gallantry, good taste, head, horse sense, intelligence, judgment, penetration, perception, perspicacity, poise, policy, politicness, presence, prudence, refinement, repose, savoir faire, sensitivity, skill, smoothness, suavity, subtlety, tactfulness, understanding, urbanity |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, indiscretion, tactlessness, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | taste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, propriety |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, aestheticism, appreciation, correctness, cultivation, culture, decorum, delicacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, distinction, elegance, feeling, finesse, good taste, grace, nicety, penetration, perception, polish, politeness, refinement, restraint, style, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, tastefulness |
| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comprehension, appreciation |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apperception, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, decipherment, discernment, discrimination, grasp, grip, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, ken, knowing, knowledge, mastery, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, perceptivity, percipience, perspicacity, prehension, realization, reason, recognition, savvy, sense, sharpness, wit |
| Antonyms: | misinterpretation, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | vision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental image, concept |
| Synonyms: | angle, aspect, astuteness, breadth of view, castles in the air, conception, daydream, discernment, divination, dream, facet, fancy, fantasy, farsightedness, foreknowledge, foresight, head trip, idea, ideal, ideality, imagination, insight, intuition, keenness, mental picture, muse, nightmare, outlook, penetration, perspective, phantasm, pie in the sky, pipe dream, point of view, prescience, retrospect, slant, standpoint, trip, understanding, view |
| Main Entry: | wisdom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight, common sense |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, balance, brains, caution, circumspection, clear thinking, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, erudition, experience, foresight, good judgment, gumption*, horse sense, information, intelligence, judgment, judiciousness, knowledge, learning, pansophy, penetration, perspicacity, poise, practicality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sageness, sanity, sapience, savoir faire, savvy*, shrewdness, solidity, sophistication, stability, understanding |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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