PERSPICACIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perspicaciousness mean? 

• PERSPICACIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun PERSPICACIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

  Familiarity information: PERSPICACIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSPICACIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

astuteness; perspicaciousness; perspicacity; shrewdness

Hypernyms ("perspicaciousness" is a kind of...):

intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)

Domain category:

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "perspicaciousness"):

craft; craftiness; cunning; foxiness; guile; slyness; wiliness (shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception)

acumen; insightfulness (shrewdness shown by keen insight)

knowingness (shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge)

street smarts (a shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment)

Derivation:

perspicacious (mentally acute or penetratingly discerning)

perspicacious (acutely insightful and wise)