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perspicacity

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per·spi·cac·i·ty  (pûrsp-ks-t)
n.
Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.
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Noun1.perspicacityperspicacity - intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"
intelligence - the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness, craft - shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
insightfulness, acumen - shrewdness shown by keen insight
knowingness - shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge
street smarts - a shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment
2.perspicacity - the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
trait - a distinguishing feature of your personal nature
objectiveness, objectivity - judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices
subjectiveness, subjectivity - judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts

perspicacity
noun (Formal) insight, discrimination, penetration, acumen, smarts (slang, chiefly U.S.), wit, sharpness, suss (slang), keenness, shrewdness, discernment, sagacity, acuteness, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicuity, perspicaciousness, sagaciousness his extraordinary political perspicacity
Translations
perspicacity [ˌpɜːspɪˈkæsɪtɪ] N (frm) → perspicacia f
perspicacity [ˌpɜːrspɪˈkæsɪti] nperspicacité f
perspicacity
nScharfsinn m, → Scharfblick m; (of decision)Weitsicht f
perspicacity [ˌpɜːspɪˈkæsɪtɪ] n (frm) → perspicacia
perspicacity [ˌpɜːspɪˈkæsɪtɪ] n (frm) → perspicacia


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The surgeon spoke with the fluency due to long practice and with the admirable perspicacity which distinguished him.
The entire world hung for months over this obscure problem --the most obscure, it seems to me, that has ever challenged the perspicacity of our police or taxed the conscience of our judges.
It was a marvellous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her.
 
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