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UK
/pəspɪkˈæsɪti/
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NOUN
- intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
How To Use perspicacity In A Sentence
- This characteristic, aided by the perspicacity which is bestowed upon every jealous woman, perchance enabled her to read the mysterious Sibyl with some approach to exactness. The Whirlpool
- Indeed the poisonous partisanship of present politics present a pernicious paradigm of parsimony preventing perspicacity from penetrating the public piazza of … of …. oh, poo! Think Progress » Fox News VP: We ‘hope’ Palin will be ‘polarizing’ as a Fox News contributor.
- An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his 'dwelling in the daylight of truth,' and so forth.
- Artists, like great religious leaders, show amazing perspicacity in this respect.
- The insurmountable hurdle for the Liberal Party is the perspicacity and discernment of the public.
- Because the existence of the Tibetan nation-in-exile is fragile and complex, his perspicacity and firmness have been essential in introducing such far-reaching changes. Rio Helmi: From Exile, Showing the Way Forward
- Baker, with that supernatural perspicacity which is sometimes found in stupid mothers, saw that Agatha was refusing her usual partners. The Grey Lady
- There is nothing heartless about his intelligence or his perspicacity.
- But here's a little fist bump for having the balls to use the word perspicacity as though you use it regularly. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
- I here, by the unexampled favour you stand in with our Sage, send not a Biography only, but an Autobiography: at least the materials for such; wherefrom, if I misreckon not, your perspicacity will draw fullest insight: and so the whole Philosophy and Philosopher of Clothes will stand clear to the wondering eyes of England, nay thence, through Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History