5e SRD:Wisdom

Wisdom
Wisdom reflects how attuned you are to the world around you and represents perceptiveness and intuition.

Wisdom Checks
A Wisdom check might reflect an effort to read body language, understand someone's feelings, notice things about the environment, or care for an injured person. The, , , , and skills reflect aptitude in certain kinds of Wisdom checks.

Other Wisdom Checks. The GM might call for a Wisdom check when you try to accomplish tasks like the following:


 * Get a gut feeling about what course of action to follow
 * Discern whether a seemingly dead or living creature is undead

Spellcasting Ability
,, and use Wisdom as their spellcasting ability, which helps determine the saving throw DCs of spells they cast.