perspicacity

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

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  • Have you really got to go to London, or do you want to pump me Your perspicacity is only exceeded by your musical talent What do you know about my musical talent You have just made allusion to it and in the highest terms Well, yes, I intend to get to the top. —  Mingled With Venom-Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 54
  • Proud of her perspicacity, and the success which had at last attended it, Laura bought some cigarettes and went back to the bus stop. —  Faintley Speaking - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 27: 1954
  • He seems to have read everyone in the place, and he tells them all how much he admires them, and they tell him how his perspicacity is exceeded only by his good looks. —  F ;SF - vol 104 issue 06 - June 2003
  • There's a Message here: Each of us likes to feel that she or he is a moral powerhouse of courage, perspicacity, and will! —  CounterPunch
  • Judge me quick, my perspicacity is almost all gone, finished, evaporated ... —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
 

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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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