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Presence of mind

//ˌpɹɛzn̩s əv ˈmaɪnd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Focused alertness, good sense, quick-thinking resourcefulness, or stability of feeling and thought, especially in spite of circumstances which are distracting, stressful, or otherwise challenging. uncountable

    "[A]s you are to hear the moſt unexpected and ſurprizing thing that perhaps ever befel any Family in the VVorld, I beg you to promiſe me you vvill receive it vvith Compoſure and a Preſence of Mind ſuitable to a Man of Senſe."

  2. 2
    self-control in a crisis; ability to say or do the right thing in an emergency wordnet

Etymology

PIE word *h₁ésmi Calque of Latin praesentia animī, from praesentia (“state of being present, presence”) + animī (the genitive singular of animus (“intellect, mind”)).

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