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Shrewdness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being shrewd. countable, uncountable

    "A man with less worldly shrewdness would never have seen how things really stood; a man with less pliability could never have adapted himself to them. It must always be remembered, that his whole administration was one long struggle: he had to maintain his master on the throne, and himself in the ministry; and this was done by sheer force of talent."

  2. 2
    intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) wordnet
  3. 3
    An invented collective name for a group of apes. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From shrewd + -ness.

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