Sa'pi·ence noun [ Latin sapientia : confer French sapience . See Sapient ..] The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Cowper. « Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience .» Tennyson. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/15
sapience 1. Wisdom and understanding; the ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight. 2. Spiritual wisdom, knowledge of divine things. 3. Having great wisdom and discernment. 4. The ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight; wisdom. Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1891/