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Examples of sapience in a Sentence
the kind of sapience that comes from a lifetime of experience as an educator
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The myth has left its mark on everything from superhero fantasies to tales of benevolent robots—narratives where artificial or alien life is in communion with human life and arrayed against the ugliest forces that sapience can produce.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
Stories of such yearnings also illustrate a key requirement for sapience: resistance to oppression.
—Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
This seeming truth is said with a kind of sleepy sapience, as though only the naïve or the self-deluded would imagine anything otherwise.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin sapientia, from sapient-, sapiens, present participle
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of sapience was
in the 14th century
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“Sapience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sapience. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
sapience
noun
sa·pi·ence
ˈsā-pē-ən(t)s
ˈsap-ē-
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