Wisdom

Noun

 * 1) The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
 * 2)  An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
 * 3)  A piece of wise advice.
 * 4) The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
 * 5) The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
 * 6)  The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.

Adjectives for Wisdom
divine; slow; memorable; infinite; wasted; practical; united; quaint; astute; stupendous; assimilable; incomparable; weighty; unseasonable; smiling; ancient; surpassing; calculating; revered; peculiar; limitless; protecting; profound; powerless; worldly; polished; political; moral; heavenly; determined; rich; presumptuous; ripe; deep; aphoristic; sufficient; supreme; collective; gnomic; honest; dark; musical; selfsame; cunning; divine; mature; inner; magisterial; earthly; passion-starved; sifted; ruthless; superhuman; eternal; detestable; conceited; whimsy; sinister; crooked; undefiled; incomprehensible; pointed; prophetic; modest; vulgar; fair; just.

Verbs for Wisdom
accumulate—; belittle—; bow to—; challenge—; cloak—; conceal—; disclose—; distil—from; doubt—; enthrone in—; garner—; impugn—; Inspire with—; invoke—; judge—; lack—; manifest—; partake of—; require—; school in—; seek—; simulate—; steep in—; temper with—; unfold—; yield to—; —decrees; —guides; —ripens; — rules; —warns.

Synonyms for Wisdom
sagacity

Antonyms for Wisdom
foolishness, folly

Derived terms

 * conventional wisdom
 * pearl of wisdom
 * wisdom tooth

Thesaurus
seasoned understanding, seemliness, sentence, sententious expression, shrewdness, smart, smarty, smarty-pants, sound understanding, stock saying, suitability, teaching, text, timeliness, understanding, usefulness, verse, wisdom literature, wise guy, wise saying, wiseacre, witticism, word, words of wisdom, adage, advantage, advisability, aphorism, apothegm, apprehension, appropriateness, axiom, broad-mindedness, byword, catchword, clairvoyance, collected sayings, command, comprehension, conception, conceptualization, convenience, current saying, decency, depth, desirability, dictate, dictum, epigram, erudition, expedience, expediency, expression, feasibility, fitness, foreknowledge, fruitfulness, gnome, golden saying, good sense, good understanding, grasp, grip, gumption, horse sense, information, insight, intellection, intelligence, judgment, judiciousness, know-it-all, lore, mastery, maxim, mellow wisdom, mental grasp, moral, mot, motto, opportuneness, oracle, percentage, perspicacity, phrase, pithy saying, precept, precognition, prehension, prescript, profit, profitability, profoundness, profundity, propriety, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, prudence, rightness, ripe wisdom, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, saneness, sapience, savvy, saw, saying, science, seasonableness.

Etymology
wisdom:, corresponding to wise: + noun suffix -dom:. Cognate with Old Norse vísdómr:, German Weistum:, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish visdom:.

Translations

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 * Dutch: wijsheid
 * Estonian: tarkus
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 * Greek: (sofía)
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 * Ido: sajeso
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 * Latin: sagacitas,
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Provençal: ,
 * Persian: خردمندی
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 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gliocas
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili: mwanafalsafa


 * Arabic: حكمة
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 * Danish:
 * Dutch: wijsheid
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 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: sajeso


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gliocas
 * Swahili:


 * Cherokee:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: wijsheid
 * Estonian: tarkus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (sofía)


 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: sajeso
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gliocas


 * Danish:
 * Dutch: wijsheid
 * Estonian: tarkus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (sofía)
 * Hungarian:


 * Ido: sajeso
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gliocas
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian:
 * Cherokee:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: wijsheid
 * Estonian: tarkus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: sajeso
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * 1) wisdom

Noun

 * 1) wisdom

Etymology
From wis: + dom:. Cognate with Old Norse vísdómr:.