480. Judgment [Conclusion.] -- N. result, conclusion, upshot; deduction, inference, ergotism [Med.] ; illation; corollary, porism ; moral.
480a. [Result of search or inquiry.] Discovery -- N. discovery, detection, disenchantment; ascertainment , disclosure, find, revelation.
481. Misjudgment -- N. misjudgment, obliquity of judgment; miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception &c (error) 495; hasty conclusion.
482. Overestimation -- N. overestimation &c v.; exaggeration &c 549; vanity &c 880; optimism, pessimism, pessimist.
483. Underestimation -- N. underestimation; depreciation &c (detraction) 934; pessimism, pessimist; undervaluing &c v.; modesty &c 881.
484. Belief -- N. belief; credence; credit; assurance; faith, trust, troth, confidence, presumption, sanguine expectation &c (hope) 858; dependence on, reliance on.
485. Unbelief. Doubt -- N. unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit, miscreance ; infidelity &c (irreligion) 989 [Obs.]; dissent &c 489; change of opinion &c 484; retraction &c 607.
486. Credulity -- N. credulity, credulousness &c adj.; cullibility , gullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry &c (obstinacy) 606; hyperorthodoxy &c 984 [Obs.]; misjudgment &c 481.
487. Incredulity -- N. incredulousness , incredulity; skepticism, pyrrhonism ; want of faith &c (irreligion) 989 [Obs.].
488. Assent -- N. assent, assentment ; acquiescence, admission; nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement &c 23; affirmance, affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal; confession of faith.
490. Knowledge -- N. knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence ; acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.] , privity , insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation &c (judgment) 480; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics .
491. Ignorance -- N. ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa [Lat.] , crass ignorance, ignorance crasse [Fr.] ; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance ; unconsciousness &c adj.; darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity.
492. Scholar -- N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman , professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist ; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister ; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer ; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur [Fr.] , literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti [It] ; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi , Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue ; Mezzofanti , admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.
493. Ignoramus -- N. ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.
494. [Object of knowledge.] Truth -- N. fact, reality &c (existence) 1; plain fact, plain matter of fact; nature &c (principle) 5; truth, verity; gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth; orthodoxy &c 983.1; authenticity; veracity &c 543; correctness, correctitude .
495. Error -- N. error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension, misstanding , misunderstanding; inexactness &c adj.; laxity; misconstruction &c (misinterpretation) 523; miscomputation &c (misjudgment) 481; non sequitur &c 477; mis-statement, mis-report; mumpsimus .
496. Maxim -- N. maxim, aphorism; apothegm, apophthegm ; dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot [Fr.] , motto, word, byword, moral, phylactery, protasis .
497. Absurdity -- N. absurdity, absurdness &c adj.; imbecility &c 499; alogy , nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy , stultiloquence ; nugacity .
498. Intelligence, Wisdom -- N. intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe [U.S.] , savvy [U.S.] ; intellect &c 450; nous [Fr.] , parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness &c adj.; acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy , perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination &c 465; cunning &c 702; refinement &c (taste) 850.
499. Imbecility. Folly -- N. want of intelligence &c 498, want of intellect &c 450; shadowness , silliness, foolishness &c adj.; imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude , dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence &c (unskillfulness) 699.
500. Sage -- N. sage, wise man; genius; master mind, master spirit of the age; longhead , thinker; intellectual, longhair.
501. Fool -- N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling , dizzard , donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer ; chowderhead , chucklehead ; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby , hoddy-doddy , noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy , owl; goose, goosecap ; imbecile; gaby ; radoteur , nincompoop, badaud , zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais .
502. Sanity -- N. sanity; soundness &c adj.; rationality, sobriety, lucidity, lucid interval; senses, sober senses, right mind, sound mind, mens sana [Lat.] .
503. Insanity -- N. disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder .
504. Madman -- N. madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite , candidate for Bedlam, raver , madcap, crazy; energumen ; automaniac , monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac &c (low spirits);; crank, Tom o'Bedlam.