astuteness

English

Etymology

From astute +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

astuteness (usually uncountable, plural astutenesses)

1. The quality of being astute.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 161:

     Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.

Translations

quality of being astute, also cleverness

• Arabic: دَهَاء (ar) m (dahāʔ)
• Basque: azerikeria
• Catalan: astúcia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精明 (zh) (jīngmíng)

• Czech: prozíravost f, mazanost f, prohnanost f
• Finnish: neuvokkuus (fi)
• French: perspicacité (fr) f, sagacité (fr) f
• Gallurese: maltaria
• German: Gerissenheit f, Scharfsinn (de) m, Scharsinnigkeit f
• Irish: amhainse f (literary)
• Italian: astuzia (it) f, scaltrezza (it) f
• Portuguese: astúcia (pt) f
• Russian: проница́тельность (ru) f (pronicátelʹnostʹ) (discernment, insight), кова́рство (ru) n (kovárstvo) (craftiness)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: astùtzia, mágna, reflescia, rusa, trassa

  Logudorese: istucia, astùtzia

• Sassarese: astùtzia
• Spanish: astucia (es) f, sagacidad (es) f, letra menuda
• Turkish: açıkgözlük (tr), kurnazlık (tr), zekilik (tr)

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