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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state or character of being perspicacious. Keenness or quickness of sight.
  2. n. Acuteness of discernment or understanding; penetration; sagacity: as, a man of great perspicacity.
  3. n. Synonyms Sagacity, etc. (see judgment), insight.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
  2. n. The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
  3. n. Keen eyesight.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
  2. n. intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

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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

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