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shrewdness

noun

Etymology

From shrewd + -ness.

  1. inherited from sċrēawa — “wicked person”
  2. inherited from schrewed — “depraved; wicked”
  3. suffixed as shrewdness — “shrewd + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being shrewd.

  2. An invented collective name for a group of apes.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA