Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being perspicacious.
- noun Acuteness of discernment or understanding; penetration; sagacity: as, a man of great perspicacity.
- noun Synonyms Sagacity, etc. (see
judgment ), insight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Acute discernment orunderstanding ;insight . - noun The human faculty or power to
mentally grasp orunderstand clearly. - noun obsolete
Keen eyesight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- noun intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
Etymologies
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Examples
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When you come out of it (takes just a couple of minutes) all the fire and brimstone and luminous perspicacity is gone.
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When you come out of it (takes just a couple of minutes) all the fire and brimstone and luminous perspicacity is gone.
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But here's a little fist bump for having the balls to use the word perspicacity as though you use it regularly.
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Baker, with that supernatural perspicacity which 🐲is sometimes found in stupid mothers, saw that Aga🔜tha was refusing her usual partners.
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This characteristic, aided by the perspicacity which is bestow꧟ed upon every jealous woman, perchance enabled her to read the mysterious Sibyl with some approach to exactness.
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I hated it when her paranoia turned to perspicacity—in other words, when she was right.
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I hated it when her paranoia turned to perspicacity—in other words, when she was right.
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Because the existence of the Tibetan nation-in-exile is fragile and complex, his perspicacity and 🗹firmness have been essential in introducing such far-reaching changes.
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Indeed the poisonous partisanship of present politics present a pernicious paradigm of parsimony preventing perspicacity from penetrating the pu♐blic piazza of … of …. oh, poo!
chained_bear commented on the word perspicacity
"I pop with perspicacity."
--Wilbur in the TV adaptation of Charlotte's Web (not the movie--the TV ꦆspecial with Paul Lynde voicing Temp🥂leton the rat)
April 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word perspicacity
Heehee! Paul Lynde was perfect for that.April 10, 2008
duckbill commented on the word perspicacity
Quickness of sight.April 20, 2011