English-Thai Dictionary

sagacity

N ความ ฉลาด และ ความสามารถ ใน การตัดสินใจ ได้ดี  ความ หลักแหลม  ความ ปราดเปรื่อง  การ มีไหวพริบ  kwam-cha-lad-lea-kwam-sa-mad-nai-kan-tad-sin-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAGACITY

n.[L. sagacitas.] 1. Quickness or acuteness of scent; applied to animals.
2. Quickness or acuteness of discernment or penetration; readiness of apprehension; the faculty of readily discerning and distinguishing ideas, and of separating truth from falsehood.
Sagacity finds out the intermediate ideas, to discover what connection there is in each link of the chain.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SAGACITY

Sa *gac "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. sagacitas. See Sagacious. ]

 

Defn: The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. Some [brutes ] show that nice sagacity of smell. Cowper. Natural sagacity improved by generous education. V. Knox.

 

Syn. -- Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness. -- Sagacity, Penetration. Penetration enables us to enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables one to guard against the designs of others, and to turn everything to the best possible advantage.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sagacity

sa gac i ty |səˈgasitē səˈɡæsədi | ▶noun the quality of being sagacious: a man of great political sagacity.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sagacity

sagacity |səˈgasɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the quality of being sagacious: a man of great political sagacity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sagacity

sagacity noun a man of great sagacity: wisdom, (deep ) insight, intelligence, understanding, judgement, acuity, astuteness, insight, sense, canniness, sharpness, depth, profundity, profoundness, perceptiveness, penetration, perception, percipience, perspicuity, discernment, erudition, learning, knowledgeability, thoughtfulness; rare sapience. ANTONYMS stupidity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sagacity

sa gac i ty /səɡǽsəti /名詞 U ｟かたく ｠聡明さ, 確かな判断力 (wisdom ).