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INCISIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incisiveness mean?
• INCISIVENESS (noun)
The noun INCISIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect
Familiarity information: INCISIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
incisiveness; trenchancy
Hypernyms ("incisiveness" is a kind of...):
effectiveness; effectivity; effectuality; effectualness (power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect)
Derivation:
incisive (having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions)
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