Wisdom vs. Wit

Wisdomnoun

(uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.

Wisdomnoun

(countable) A piece of wise advice.

Wisdomnoun

The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.

Wisdomnoun

The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.

Wisdomnoun

The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.

Wisdomnoun

(theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.

Wisdomnoun

The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.

Wisdomnoun

The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.

Wisdomnoun

accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

Wisdomnoun

the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight

Wisdomnoun

ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

Wisdomnoun

the quality of being prudent and sensible

Wisdomnoun

an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC

Wisdom

Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence.Wisdom has been defined in many different ways, including several distinct approaches to assess the characteristics attributed to wisdom.

Witnoun

Sanity.

Witnoun

The senses.

Witnoun

Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

Witnoun

The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

Witnoun

Intelligence; common sense.

Witnoun

Humour, especially when clever or quick.

Witnoun

A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

Witverb

Know, be aware of constructed with of when used intransitively.

Witpreposition

(Southern American English) lang=en

Witverb

To know; to learn.

Witnoun

Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.

Witnoun

A mental faculty, or power of the mind; - used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.

Witnoun

Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.

Witnoun

A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.

Witnoun

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

Witnoun

mental ability;

Witnoun

a witty amusing person who makes jokes

Witnoun

the capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence

Witnoun

good sense

Witnoun

a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour

Witnoun

a witty person

Witverb

have knowledge

Witverb

that is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to)

Wit

Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks.