perspicacity

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

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  • Judge me quick, my perspicacity is almost all gone, finished, evaporated ... —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • "Your perspicacity is amazing, but I will try and not show my sense of it, if it is going to make you stop He smiled; the Inspector smiled: neither understood me Very well then, I will go on; but the non-change of shoes had to be accounted for, Miss Butterworth You are right; and it has been, of course Have you any better explanation to give I had, or thought I had, and the words trembled on my tongue. —  That Affair Next Door
  • But I have understood you at the end of the first day Razumov interrupted her, speaking steadily I assure you that your perspicacity is at fault here What phrases he uses!" —  Under Western Eyes
  • "I assure you that your perspicacity is at fault here." —  Under Western Eyes
  • "Your perspicacity is amazing, but I will try and not show my sense of it, if it is going to make you stop." —  That Affair Next Door
 

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  1. from French perspicacité = Spanish perspicacidad = Portuguese perspicacidade = Italian perspicacitá, from Late Latin perspicacita(t-)s, sharpsightedness, from Latin perspicax (perspicac-), seeing through: see perspicacious.
 

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/pərspɪˈkæsəti/
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