sageness
Quality of elders
Sageness is the quality of being sage—possessing or displaying deep wisdom and good judgment.
The word is rare, as *wisdom* or *sagacity* typically fills this role: The old woman's sageness was evident in her measured counsel.
It appears mostly in literary or formal contexts.
Careful, wise judgment
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
- sapienceProfound intellectual discernment
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
acumen · astuteness · shrewdness · counsel · advisement · insight · understanding · knowledge
State of being understandable
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- perspicacityKeen mental perception
- keennessSharpness of perception
penetration · comprehension · cognition · realization · epiphany · enlightenment · introspection · hindsight
Uncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- dialecticsReasoning through contradiction
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
ethics · metaphysics · epistemology · vedanta · scholasticism · hermeneutics · phenomenology · contemplation
prudence
Careful, wise judgment
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
- sapienceProfound intellectual discernment
foresight · acumen · astuteness · shrewdness · counsel · advisement · insight · understanding · knowledge · experience
clarity
State of being understandable
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- perspicacityKeen mental perception
keenness · penetration · comprehension · cognition · realization · epiphany · enlightenment · introspection · hindsight · subtlety
stoicism
Uncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
- dialecticsReasoning through contradiction
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
rationalism · ethics · metaphysics · epistemology · vedanta · scholasticism · hermeneutics · phenomenology · contemplation · logos
sagenessfoolishness
Unwise conduct
folly · stupidity · idiocy · imbecility · witlessness
sagenessirrationality
Absence of logic
unreasonableness · senselessness · illogic · unsoundness · craziness
sage, presage, sagacity, sagacious, sagely, presaging, presaged