I trust in his perspicacity.
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Perspicacity
//ˌpɜːɹ.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti//
Synonyms for "perspicacity" (90 found)
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43 translations across 32 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- прозорливост noun (The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly)
- проницателност noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Catalan
1 entries- perspicàcia noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 洞察力 noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Danish
1 entries- skarpsindighed noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Dutch
1 entries- verloop noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Esperanto
2 entries- sagaco noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
- sagaco noun (The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly)
Finnish
2 entries- tarkkanäköisyys noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
- tarkkanäköisyys noun (Keen eyesight)
French
1 entries- perspicacité noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
German
4 entries- Auffassungsgabe noun (The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly)
- Auffassungsvermögen noun (The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly)
- Scharfsinn noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
- Scharfsinn noun (The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly)
Greek
1 entries- οξυδέρκεια noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Hungarian
1 entries- éleselméjű noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Indonesian
1 entries- kecerdikan noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Italian
1 entries- perspicacità noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Japanese
1 entries- 洞察 noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Korean
1 entries- 안식 noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Latin
1 entries- perspicācitās noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Latvian
1 entries- vērīgums noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Lithuanian
1 entries- nuovokumas noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Macedonian
2 entries- прони́кливост noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
- прони́кливост noun (The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly)
Persian
1 entries- تدبیر، noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Polish
1 entries- przenikliwość noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Portuguese
1 entries- perspicácia noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Romanian
1 entries- perspicacitate noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Russian
2 entries- проница́тельность noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
- проница́тельность noun (The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly)
Slovak
1 entries- prezieravosť noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Slovene
1 entries- pronicljivost noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Spanish
1 entries- perspicacia noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Swedish
1 entries- klarsynthet noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Tagalog
2 entries- katalisikan noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
- talisik noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Turkish
2 entries- algı noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
- idrak noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Ukrainian
1 entries- проникливість noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Urdu
1 entries- زیرکی noun (Acute discernment or understanding; insight)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"I understand," I said. "The fact is that you have the money." His face brightened. He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.
Source: wiktionary
The citizens chose a university. They reasoned, with considerable perspicacity, that taxes come and go in response to political considerations, but a university, once established, is a permanent benefit to a city and a nation.
Source: wiktionary
McEwan certainly has a flair for unusual points of view. Adam, like the baby-in-waiting who narrates Nutshell, is an extraordinarily smart, well-informed, and unorthodox character who catches his supposed caretakers off-guard with his perspicacity.
Source: wiktionary
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