sapience

tietämys The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
1478, (w), (w), "The Wife of Bath's Tale" 1195-8, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/The_Wife_of_Bath's_Prologue_and_Tale

Povert is hateful good, and, as I gesse, / A ful greet bringer out of bisinesse; / A greet amender eek of sapience / To him that taketh it in pacience.

As much Experience, is Prudence; so, is much Science, Sapience.

Mean while the Son / On his great Expedition now appeer'd, / Girt with Omnipotence, with Radiance crown'd / Of Majestie Divine, Sapience and Love / Immense, and all his Father in him shon.

Was it that his eccentric unsentimental old sapience, primitive in its kind, saw or thought it saw something which, in contrast with the war-ship's environment, looked oddly incongruous in the Handsome Sailor?

This, a solo of sapience, / This, a chantey of sophistry, / This, the sum of experiments— / I loved them until they loved me.

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.