Incisivity

Quick meaning: Incisivity is a noun meaning The quality of being incisive; penetrating trenchancy; incisiveness.

Meaning

The quality of being incisive; penetrating trenchancy; incisiveness.

Example Sentences

[T]hey pertain mainly to the anthropological perspective, to the specific language it uses and, last but not least, to a lack of courage and incisivity.

Based on a ‘whirling sketch’, now in Lille, it depicts ‘profiles of extraordinary incisivity’ that fully support the circularity of the tondo form, showing a ‘miraculous unity of linear dynamism and plastic solidity’ (Carli 1983: 112).

A true witness of his times and the men that have lived in them, [Al. Rosetti] has sketched with a firm hand unforgettable portraits of an illustrious series of friends, in a ‘White Book[’], and has never disclosed the virulent pages in which he describes human larvae with the incisivity of steel engravings for a possible Black Book.

Their personality features concern: the desire of assuming intellectual risks, perseverance in solving problems, curiosity and incisivity, opening to new experience, working discipline, intolerance to the rules and limits imposed by others, searching for competence, reflexivity, tolerance to ambiguity, intuition, direct and spontaneous interest for work, a wide variety of interests.

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Related dictionary entries include incisiveness, trenchancy, trenchantness, sharpness, keenness, cuttingness.

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