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Smartness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being smart, intelligence. uncountable
  2. 2
    liveliness and eagerness wordnet
  3. 3
    The state or quality of being smart in appearance. uncountable

    "The station buildings at Oxton and Lauder have been repainted, and a general air of smartness prevails, marred only by some broken signal spectacles."

  4. 4
    elegance by virtue of being fashionable wordnet
  5. 5
    The result or product of being smart. countable
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  1. 6
    intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty wordnet
  2. 7
    a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English smartnesse, smertnesse, equivalent to smart + -ness. Cognate with Middle Dutch smartenisse (“pain, injury, insult, scorn, agony”).

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