Perspicacity

Quick meaning: Perspicacity is a noun meaning Acute discernment or understanding; insight.

Meaning

Acute discernment or understanding; insight.

More Meanings

1. The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
2. (obsolete) Keen eyesight.

Example Sentences

"I understand," I said. "The fact is that you have the money." His face brightened. He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.

His very veneration for his father-in-law, combined as it is with a total want of the most ordinary perspicacity, is an additional disqualification.

As the former consists in the transmission of psychic states inappreciable to the normal perspicacity or senses, the transfer cannot pass through the medium of intelligence.

The citizens chose a university. They reasoned, with considerable perspicacity, that taxes come and go in response to political considerations, but a university, once established, is a permanent benefit to a city and a nation.

Word Forms

• perspicacities

Synonyms for perspicacity

Depending on context, synonyms include judgment, astuteness, judgement, shrewdness, perspicaciousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include astuteness, shrewdness, judgment, judgement, acumen, clear-sightedness.

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