wisdom

1. 1.

   accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

   Broadercontent

   Narrowerreconditeness
2. 2.

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

   Synonymswiseness

   Antonymsfolly

   Broadertrait

   Narrowerjudiciousnessknowledgeabilitystatesmanshipdiscretion
3. 3.

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

   Synonymssapience

   Broaderknow-how

   Narrowerastutenesssagacity
4. 4.

   the quality of being prudent and sensible

   Synonymswisenesssoundness

   Broadergood

   Narroweradvisabilityreasonableness
5. 5.

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

   SynonymsWisdom of Solomon

   Broaderbook

   Part ofsapiential bookApocrypha

Other forms of wisdom

plural

wisdoms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wisdom

What does wisdom mean?

wisdom means "accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wisdom?

wisdom has 2 syllables: wis-dom. The stress falls on "wis". In IPA it is /ˈwɪzdəm/.

What is another word for wisdom?

Close synonyms include wiseness, sapience, wiseness, soundness, Wisdom of Solomon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of wisdom?

The recorded antonyms are folly.

Is wisdom a common word?

wisdom is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.