per·spi·cac·i·ty

(pûr′spĭ-kăs′ĭ-tē)

Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.

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Noun	1.	perspicacity - intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) astuteness, perspicaciousness, shrewdness 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 sound judgement, sound judgment, judgement, judgment 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

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perspicacity

noun

Skill in perceiving, discriminating, or judging:

acumen, astuteness, clear-sightedness, discernment, discrimination, eye, keenness, nose, penetration, perceptiveness, percipience, percipiency, sagacity, sageness, shrewdness, wit.

Translations

perspicacité

perspicacia

perspicacity

[ˌpɜːspɪˈkæsɪtɪ] N (frm) → perspicacia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

perspicacity

[ˌpɜː^rspɪˈkæsɪti] n → perspicacité f

perspicacity

n → Scharfsinn m, → Scharfblick m; (of decision) → Weitsicht f

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perspicacity

[ˌpɜːspɪˈkæsɪtɪ] n (frm) → perspicacia