wisdom

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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wisdom (ˈwɪzdəm)

—n
1.	the ability or result of an ability to think and act utilizing knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight
2.	accumulated knowledge, erudition, or enlightenment
3.	archaic a wise saying or wise sayings or teachings
4.	obsolete soundness of mind

Related: sagacious

[Old English wīsdōm; see wise¹, -dom]

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wisdom

O.E. wisdom, from wis (see wise (adj.)) + -dom. A common Gmc. compound (cf. O.S., O.Fris. wisdom, O.N. visdomr, O.H.G. wistuom "wisdom," Ger. Weistum "judicial sentence serving as a precedent"). Wisdom teeth so called from 1848 (earlier teeth of wisdom,

1668), a loan-translation of L. dentes sapientiæ, itself a loan-transl. of Gk. sophronisteres (used by Hippocrates, from sophron "prudent, self-controlled"), so called because they usually appear ages 17-25, when a person reaches adulthood.

Example sentences

We cannot reach any agreed wisdom by reducing these writers to their lowest

common denominator.

We also need to ask why the common wisdom seems to be the opposite.

The conventional wisdom that prevailed until recently made a lot more sense.

We find the same split in the collected wisdom of the centuries.

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Matching Quote

"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.... God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."

-Pierre Charron