Perspicacity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
  • n. The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
  • n. Keen eyesight.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or character of being perspicacious.
  • n. Acuteness of discernment or understanding; penetration; sagacity: as, a man of great perspicacity.
  • n. Synonyms Sagacity, etc. (see judgment), insight.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
  • n. intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
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    acumen    sagacity    cleverness    shrewdness    discernment