wisdom

IPA: wˈɪzdʌm

(uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
(countable) A piece of wise advice.
The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
(theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
(rare) A group of wombats.
(rare) A group of owls.
(biblical) The Wisdom of Solomon, a book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.

Examples of "wisdom" in Sentences

I did not always listen, but his wisdom is a part of me today.
“But I offer it to you as a piece of ancient wisdom, what we call the wisdom of the East.”
He seems to believe his wisdom is a good substitute for the collective wisdom of his colleagues.
SPIRIT, by which was "revealed" to them "_The wisdom of God_ ... even the _hidden wisdom_, which GOD ordained before the world."
All our days are so unprofitable while they pass, that 'tis wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue.
As it says in the beginning, -- "Tending babies is an art, and every art is founded on a science of observations; for love is not wisdom, but love must act _according to wisdom_ in order to succeed.
And truly the reason may in part be, that people have become doubtful whether colleges are now the real sources of what I called wisdom; whether they are anything more, anything much more, than a cultivating of man in the specific arts.
Why that has decayed away may in part be that people have become doubtful that colleges are now the real sources of that which I call wisdom, whether they are anything more -- anything much more -- than a cultivating of man in the specific arts.
Welcoming the South African delegation, which is attending Lome for the first time since its inception in 1957, European Union co-president Henry Lord Plumb paid tribute to what he called the wisdom and courage of President Nelson Mandela and other South