acumen
American Heritage Dictionary:
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ac·u·men
(ăk'yə-mən, ə-kyū'-) 
n.
Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
n.
Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
[Latin acūmen, from acuere, to sharpen, from acus, needle.]
USAGE NOTE The pronunciation (ə-kyū'mən), with stress on the second syllable, is an older, traditional pronunciation reflecting the word's Latin origin. In recent years it has been supplanted as the most common pronunciation of the word by an Anglicized variant with stress on the first syllable, (ăk'yə-mən). In a recent survey, 68 percent of the Usage Panel chose this as their pronunciation, while 29 percent preferred the pronunciation with stress on the second syllable. The remaining 3 percent of the Panelists said they use both pronunciations.
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Roget's Thesaurus:
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acumen
noun
- Skill in perceiving, discriminating, or judging: astuteness, clear-sightedness, discernment, discrimination, eye, keenness, nose, penetration, perceptiveness, percipience, percipiency, perspicacity, sagacity, sageness, shrewdness, wit. See ability/inability, careful/careless.
Antonyms by Answers.com:
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acumen
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Definition: ability to understand and reason
Antonyms: denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity
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acumen
IN BRIEF: Quick thinking or insight.
Daniel approached the issues with great acumen.
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Acumen
Dansk (Danish)
n. - skarpsindighed, skarpsyn, kløgt, dygtighed
Nederlands (Dutch)
scherpzinnigheid
Français (French)
n. - sagacité, perspicacité, flair
Deutsch (German)
n. - Scharfsinn, Scharfsinnigkeit
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - οξυδέρκεια, οξύνοια
Italiano (Italian)
acume, perspicacia
Português (Portuguese)
n. - acume (m), perspicácia (f)
Русский (Russian)
проницательность
Español (Spanish)
n. - agudeza, perspicacia
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skarpsinne
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
敏锐, 聪明
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 敏銳, 聰明
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 날카로움, 안식, 총명
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 鋭さ, 眼識, 明敏
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) فطنه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - פיקחות, חריפות השכל
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