sapience Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
    wisdom.

WordNet

Sa"pi*ence noun
Etymology
L. sapientia: cf. F. sapience. See Sapient..
Definitions
  1. The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Cowper.
    Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience. Tennyson.

Webster 1913