sagacity
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
The quality of being wise and showing sound judgement.
The old broker's sagacity had steered the firm through three recessions.
Business noun
Wisdom and shrewdness of judgment, especially in practical matters.
Clients retained the veteran advisor less for his frameworks than for his sagacity under pressure.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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