Synonyms and Antonyms of wisdom
- with age and experience comes wisdom—hopefully
- neither book learning nor simple intelligence should be confused with wisdom
acuity, acumen, astuteness, clear-sightedness, keenness, penetration, percipience, perspicacity, sensitivity, understanding
appreciation, apprehension, comprehension, grasp
brain(s), braininess, brightness, brilliance, canniness, cleverness, gray matter, intellect, intelligence, judgment (or judgement), mentality, power, reason, sense, smartness, wit
discrimination, foresight, foresightedness, judiciousness, prudence, sanity
- the orientation meetings will provide the company's old hands with an opportunity to pass on their wisdom to the new employees
dope, information, intelligence, know, lowdown, news, skinny [slang]
acquaintance, awareness, familiarity, literacy
- had overstayed her welcome and lacked the wisdom to know it
common sense, discreetness, discretion, gumption [chiefly dialect], horse sense, levelheadedness, nous [chiefly British], policy, prudence, sense, sensibleness, wit
farsightedness, forehandedness, foresight, foresightedness, forethoughtfulness, judgment (or judgement)
brains, gray matter, intelligence
logicality, logicalness, practicality, rationality, rationalness
discernment, discrimination, insight, sagacity, sapience
acumen, astuteness, clearheadedness, keenness, penetration, perspicacity, shrewdness