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Incisiveness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality or state of being incisive; incisivity.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. keenness and forcefulnelss of thought or expression or intellect.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The character or quality of being incisive.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect

Word Usage

"In a forthcoming article (November 11, 2010) in the New York Review of Books, Diane Ravitch, the eminent educator, critiques the movie Waiting for 'Superman', which she deconstructed with her usual incisiveness and profound knowledge of the history of recent educational "reforms.""

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

effectualness effectiveness effectivity effectuality

Cross Reference

incisively incisive

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

trenchancy

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

mortae configurability coherency amocha terseness