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wisdom has 4 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 5 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is folly.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for wisdom come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
the quality of being prudent and sensible
an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC