Category: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.