wisdom (n.)

  1. accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

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

    [ Syn: wiseness ]

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

    [ Syn: sapience ]

  4. the quality of being prudent and sensible

    [ Syn: wiseness , soundness ]

  5. an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC

    [ Syn: wisdom of solomon , wisdom ]

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