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Gormlessness vs Sapience - What's the difference?

gormlessness | sapience |

As nouns the difference between gormlessness and sapience

is that gormlessness is the quality or state of being gormless while sapience is the property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.

gormlessness

English

Alternative forms

* gaumlessness (rare)

Noun

(-)
  • The quality or state of being gormless.
  • * 2009 , Uneasy Partners: Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada (ISBN 1554587972), page 72:
    • One might contend that public perceptions of the gormlessness of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) plus the amateurish conduct of the suspected conspirators might explain [it].
  • * 2012 , James Wakely, Mad Or Bad?: A Few Thumbnail Sketches (ISBN 147721481X), page 211:
    • The facial expression can be mask-like, almost frozen in an attitude which may suggest dissatisfaction, surly sulkiness, hatred, resentment, sadness or possibly just general gormlessness .
  • * (rfdate), Frank Key, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags , page 131:
    • Nevertheless he began to feel off colour and when, eventually, the venom reached his brain it had the effect of increasing, rather than alleviating, his gormlessness .

    sapience

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
  • * 2009 , Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas
    • I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.
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