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perspicacity

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˌpɜː.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/Part of speech nounSorted acceiipprstyStarts with PEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

Word origin

From perspicac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French perspicacité, from Latin perspicācitās (“sharpsightedness, discrimination”), from perspicio, from per- + specio, "see through (something)".

Used in a sentence

  • "I understand," I said. "The fact is that you have the money." His face brightened. He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.
  • His very veneration for his father-in-law, combined as it is with a total want of the most ordinary perspicacity, is an additional disqualification.
  • As the former consists in the transmission of psychic states inappreciable to the normal perspicacity or senses, the transfer cannot pass through the medium of intelligence.

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