wisdoms

noun

plural of wisdom
as in knowledges
a body of facts learned by study or experience the orientation meetings will provide the company's old hands with an opportunity to pass on their wisdom to the new employees

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Recent Examples of wisdoms Regardless of one’s experience with the Tarot, this book offers profound, embodied wisdoms for creative and critical writers, artists, and activists. — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026 The book also includes little wisdoms from his three children with wife Camila Alves McConaughey; son Levi, 17 (who plays his onscreen son in The Lost Bus), daughter Vida, 15, and younger son Livingston, 12. — Andrea Mandell, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
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  1. knowledges
  2. sciences
Noun
  • Sometimes my collection of knowledges feels like rash splatters of matter floating with me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of knowledges
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  • Yvonne and Nick’s disastrous wedding dinner is the day the cast went from nobodies to actual practitioners of the reality-television arts and sciences.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • Along with theology, that list now includes applied psychology, pharmaceutical sciences and others.
    — Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of sciences

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