astuteness
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astuteness
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- Skill in perceiving, discriminating, or judging: acumen, clear-sightedness, discernment, discrimination, eye, keenness, nose, penetration, perceptiveness, percipience, percipiency, perspicacity, sagacity, sageness, shrewdness, wit. See ability/inability, careful/careless.
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astuteness
IN BRIEF: n. - The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas; Intelligence manifested by being shrewd (as in business dealings).
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness
— Cullen Hightower
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