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Noun wisdom has 5 senses

wisdom - accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
--₁ is a kind of content, cognitive content, mental object
--₁ has particulars:
reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity
wisdom, wiseness - the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
--₂ is a kind of trait
Antonyms: folly, foolishness, unwiseness
--₂ has particulars:
judiciousness, sagacity, sagaciousness; knowledgeability, knowledgeableness, initiation; statesmanship, statecraft, diplomacy; discretion, discernment
wisdom, sapience - ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
--₃ is a kind of know-how
--₃ has particulars:
astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth; sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
wisdom, wiseness, soundness - the quality of being prudent and sensible
--₄ is a kind of good, goodness
--₄ has particulars: advisability; reasonableness
Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom - an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
--₅ is a kind of book
--₅ is a part of sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature; Apocrypha