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Astuteness

//əˈst͡ʃuːtnəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being astute. uncountable, usually

    "Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor."

  2. 2
    the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas wordnet
  3. 3
    intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) wordnet

Etymology

From astute + -ness.

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