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incisiveness

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in·ci·sive  (n-ssv)
adj.
Penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression: an incisive mind; incisive comments.

in·cisive·ly adv.
in·cisive·ness n.
Synonyms: incisive, trenchant, biting, cutting, crisp
These adjectives refer to keenness and forcefulness of thought, expression, or intellect. Incisive and trenchant suggest penetration to the heart of a subject and clear, sharp, and vigorous expression: an incisive report; trenchant wit.
Biting and cutting often have a sarcastic or sardonic quality capable of wounding or stinging: "Biting remarks revealed her attitude of contempt" (D.H. Lawrence). "He can say the driest, most cutting things in the quietest of tones" (Charlotte Brontë).
Crisp suggests clarity, conciseness, and briskness: a crisp retort.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.incisivenessincisiveness - keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect
effectiveness, effectivity, effectuality, effectualness - power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect


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"Miss Tulliver," he said, with bitter incisiveness, "has the only grounds of rank that anything but vulgar folly can suppose to belong to the middle class; she is thoroughly refined, and her friends, whatever else they may be, are respected for irreproachable honor and integrity.
Long before, on noticing a dying tree, he had observed, with the pitiless incisiveness which would spare neither others nor himself: 'I am like that.
 
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