Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being perspicacious. Keenness or quickness of sight.
- n. Acuteness of discernment or understanding; penetration; sagacity: as, a man of great perspicacity.
- n. Synonyms Sagacity, etc. (see judgment), insight.
Wiktionary
- n. Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
- n. The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
- n. Keen eyesight.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- n. intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
Examples
“When you come out of it (takes just a couple of minutes) all the fire and brimstone and luminous perspicacity is gone.”
“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 Agatha was refusing her usual partners.”
“This characteristic, aided by the perspicacity which is bestowed upon every jealous woman, perchance enabled her to read the mysterious Sibyl with some approach to exactness.”
“Indeed the poisonous partisanship of present politics present a pernicious paradigm of parsimony preventing perspicacity from penetrating the public piazza of … of …. oh, poo!”
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“I hated it when her paranoia turned to perspicacity—in other words, when she was right.”
“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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“Five years for Amir shows perspicacity from the ICC.”
The Guardian: ICC tribunal bans Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt for 10 years
“A notoriously difficult play is laid out before us with rare perspicacity.”
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duckbill Quickness of sight. Apr 19, 2011
reesetee Heehee! Paul Lynde was perfect for that. Apr 10, 2008
chained_bear "I pop with perspicacity."
--Wilbur in the TV adaptation of Charlotte's Web (not the movie--the TV special with Paul Lynde voicing Templeton the rat) Apr 10, 2008