perspicacity
noun/ˌpɜː.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/UK/ˌpɜːɹ.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/US
Etymology
From From perspicac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French perspicacité, from Latin perspicācitās (“sharpsightedness, discrimination”), from perspicio, from per- + specio, "see through (something)".
- derived from perspicacité
Definitions
Acute discernment or understanding
Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
- "I understand," I said. "The fact is that you have the money." His face brightened. He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.
- 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.
The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
- 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.
Keen eyesight.
The neighborhood
- neighborperspicacious
- neighborperspicaciousness
- neighborperspicuity
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for perspicacity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA