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Definition of Perspicaciousness
1. Noun. Intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings).
Category relationships: Business, Business Enterprise, Commercial Enterprise
Generic synonyms: Intelligence
Specialized synonyms: Craft, Craftiness, Cunning, Foxiness, Guile, Slyness, Wiliness, Acumen, Insightfulness, Knowingness, Street Smarts
Derivative terms: Astute, Perspicacious, Perspicacious, Perspicacious, Shrewd, Shrewd
Definition of Perspicaciousness
1. Noun. Perspicacity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perspicaciousness
Literary usage of Perspicaciousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1899)
"... distinctness; of thinking, perspicaciousness. The respectfulness becomes
manifest in gravity ; accordance (with reason), in orderliness; the clearness, ..."
2. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"... manifest in gravity; accordance with reason in orderliness; the clearness, in
wisdom; the distinctness, in deliberation; and the perspicaciousness, ..."
3. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1883)
"... another loves to climb the Alps of inspiration, genius, perspicaciousness in
religious development, and the exaltations resulting from the impersonal ..."
4. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"Relating to the science oi vision, optick,opti- c,il. PERSPICACIOUS, pèr-spè-ka'shus.
a. perspicaciousness ..."
5. Posthumous Works of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers by Thomas Chalmers (1849)
"He gives a perspicaciousness beyond that of nature or its faculties, to the eye
of consciousness, to what Dr. Thomas Brown calls the faculty of internal ..."
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