Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sagacity

Sagacity , noun

[Latin sagacitas. See Sagacious.]

The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. — Cowper
Natural sagacity improved by generous education. — V. Knox