n.
Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.
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perspicacity
American Heritage Dictionary:
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n.
Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.
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- Skill in perceiving, discriminating, or judging: acumen, astuteness, clear-sightedness, discernment, discrimination, eye, keenness, nose, penetration, perceptiveness, percipience, percipiency, sagacity, sageness, shrewdness, wit. See ability/inability, careful/careless.
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