1. The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
   "The elder's wisdom guided the community through difficult times";
   - wiseness
    
2. The quality of being prudent and sensible
   "His wisdom during the crisis helped calm the team";
   - wiseness, soundness, level-headedness
    
3. Ability to apply knowledge, experience, understanding or common sense and insight
   "Her wisdom in handling complex negotiations impressed her colleagues";
   - sapience
    
4. Accumulated knowledge, erudition or enlightenment
   "The old man's wisdom was sought by many in the village"

1. An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
   - Book of Wisdom, Wisdom of Solomon

Derived forms: wisdoms

Type of: book, cognitive content, content, good, goodness, know-how, knowledge, mental object, trait

Antonym: folly, unsoundness

Part of: Apocrypha, sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature

Encyclopedia: Wisdom, Montana