sense vs wisdom

sense

noun
  • Sound practical or moral judgment. 

  • Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness. 

  • One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity. 

  • A natural appreciation or ability. 

  • The way that a referent is presented. 

  • The meaning, reason, or value of something. 

  • A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary. 

  • Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste. 

  • referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product. 

  • One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise. 

  • Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings. 

verb
  • To instinctively be aware. 

  • To comprehend. 

  • To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel. 

wisdom

noun
  • A piece of wise advice. 

  • A group of owls. 

  • The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding. 

  • An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise. 

  • The ability to know and apply spiritual truths. 

  • The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good. 

  • The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained. 

  • A group of wombats. 

How often have the words sense and wisdom occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )