(n.) The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the Quinlan decision, a state supreme court authorized removal of a respirator from a person in a chronic vegetative state provided that the attending physicians and an "ethics committee" agreed there was no reasonable possibility of her regaining cognition or sapience.
Sapient
Definition:
(a.) Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I'm a huge supporter of Bradley Manning ... but what Snowden did is even more important as we are all directly involved," Westwood said, speaking at a Cannes session as a guest of agency Sapient Nitro to promote her brand of storytelling and campaigning.
(2) Meanwhile March’s Chappie is District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s return to the streets of metropolitan South Africa in the company of a Short Circuit-style sapient robot and Die Antwoord members Yolandi and Ninja.
(3) But in this instance the advances alone in the rendering of realistic sapient apes and resulting fascination with these sci-fi versions of our closest relations made the experience unmissable.
(4) "But they were sapient people as well – that is probably the implication of the last decade of results."