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NOUN:
The quality of being discerning, sound in judgment, and farsighted; wisdom.

ETYMOLOGY:
French sagacité, from Old French sagacite, from Latin sagcits, quickness of perception, from sagx, sagc-, of keen perception ; see sagacious


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