(~s)
1.
Wisdom is the ability to use your experience and knowledge in order to make sensible decisions or judgments.
...the patience and ~ that comes from old age.
...a great man, who spoke words of great ~.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
Wisdom is the store of knowledge that a society or culture has collected over a long period of time.
...this church’s original Semitic ~, religion and faith.
N-VAR
3.
If you talk about the ~ of a particular decision or action, you are talking about how sensible it is.
Many Lithuanians have expressed doubts about the ~ of the decision.
N-SING: the N of n/-ing
4.
You can use ~ to refer to ideas that are accepted by a large number of people.
Health education ~ in the UK differs from that of the United States...
Unchallenged ~s flow swiftly among the middle classes.
N-VAR: supp N
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The conventional ~ about something is the generally accepted view of it.
...the conventional ~ that soccer is a minor sport in America.
PHRASE: N inflects