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acumen - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: acumen
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ability to understand and reason
Synonyms: acuteness, astuteness, awareness, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, perspicacity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, shrewdness, smarts*, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit, acuity, brains, brilliance, good taste, percipience, perspicuity, sharpness, smartness
Notes: acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays
Antonyms: ignorance, inability, stupidity, denseness, ineptness, obtuseness
Main Entry: clairvoyance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intuition
Synonyms: ESP*, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, insight, omen, penetration, perception, precognition, premonition, psyche, sixth sense*, telepathy
Main Entry: common sense
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sound judgment
Synonyms: acumen, cool, experience, gumption, horse sense*, horse sense, intelligence, logic, mother wit, practicality, prudence, reason, sense, sound judgment, soundness, wisdom, wit, good reasoning, good sense, levelheadedness, rationality, reasonableness, sensibleness, sound sense, sweet reason, wits
Antonyms: foolishness, impracticality, insanity, unreasonableness
Main Entry: finesse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: know-how, maneuver
Synonyms: acumen, adroitness, artifice, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket*, run-around*, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile, adeptness, artfulness, big stick, craftiness
Antonyms: ignorance
Main Entry: gumption
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nerve, initiative
Synonyms: ability, acumen, astuteness, cleverness, discernment, enterprise, horse sense*, industry, judgment, perspicacity, sagacity, savvy, sense, shrewdness, spirit, wisdom, wit, commonsense, get-up-and-go, good sense, perspicaciousness, resourcefulness, sagaciousness
Antonyms: cowardice, naivety
Main Entry: insight
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intuitiveness, awareness
Synonyms: acumen, click*, comprehension, discernment, divination, drift*, intuition, judgment, observation, penetration, perception, perspicacity, sagacity, sapience, shrewdness, understanding, vision, wisdom, perceptivity, sagaciousness, sageness, wavelength
Antonyms: ignorance, stupidity
Main Entry: intellect
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: capability of the mind; someone with capable mind
Synonyms: ability, acumen, comprehension, egghead*, genius, intellectual, intelligence, intuition, judgment, mentality, mind, psyche, pundit, reason, savvy, sense, smarts, thinker, understanding, brains, cerebration, intellectuality, what it takes, wits
Antonyms: ignorance
Main Entry: ken
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: perception
Synonyms: acumen, apprehension, attention, attitude, awareness, cognizance, comprehension, concept, consciousness, grasp, idea, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, picture, realizing, recognition, sense, sight, understanding, vision, apprehending
Main Entry: perception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: understanding, idea
Synonyms: acumen, apprehension, approach, attention, attitude, awareness, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, discernment, feeling, flash, grasp, image, impression, insight, judgment, knowledge, light, notion, observation, opinion, perspicacity, picture, plan, realizing, recognition, sagacity, sensation, sense, study, taste, thought, viewpoint, apprehending, big idea, brain wave, brainchild, intellection
Main Entry: precognition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clairvoyance
Synonyms: ESP, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, foresight, insight, intuition, omen, penetration, perception, prediction, premonition, prophecy, psyche, second sight, sixth sense*, telepathy, extra sensory perception, fortune-telling
Main Entry: reasoning
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: logic, interpretation
Synonyms: acumen, analysis, argument, case, cogitation, corollary, deduction, exposition, hypothesis, induction, inference, interpretation, logistics, premise, proof, proposition, rationale, reason, syllogism, thinking, thought, apriority, concluding, dialectics, generalization, illation, ratiocination, rationalizing, syllogization, train of thought
Antonyms: nonsense, irrationality
Main Entry: sagacity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wisdom
Synonyms: acumen, astuteness, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, experience, foresight, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, sapience, sense, shrewdness, understanding, brains, clear thinking, good judgment, levelheadedness, perceptiveness, sageness
Main Entry: sanity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental health; soundness of judgment
Synonyms: acumen, balance, common sense, comprehension, intelligence, lucidity, normality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sense, soundness, stability, understanding, wit, clear mind, good judgment, healthy mind, judiciousness, levelheadedness, lucidness, marbles, rationality, reasonableness, right mind, saneness, sound mind
Antonyms: insanity, instability, madness, craziness, unsoundness
Main Entry: savvy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shrewdness
Synonyms: acumen, awareness, comprehension, discernment, experience, grasp, grip, insight, intellect, intelligence, judgment, know-how, knowing, knowledge, mastery, perception, sense, smarts*, understanding, perceptiveness, sharpness
Main Entry: smarts
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intelligence
Synonyms: acumen, alertness, aptitude, brightness, cleverness, competence, comprehension, gray matter, intellect, judgment, know-how, mind, perception, perspicacity, reason, savvy, sense, understanding, IQ, acuity, brainpower, brains, brilliance, precocity, the right stuff, what it takes
Main Entry: tact
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: finesse, thoughtfulness
Synonyms: acumen, acuteness, address, adroitness, amenity, care, common sense, consideration, control, courtesy, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, discrimination, gallantry, head, horse sense*, intelligence, judgment, penetration, perception, perspicacity, poise, policy, presence, prudence, refinement, repose, savoir faire, sensitivity, skill, smoothness, suavity, subtlety, understanding, aptness, delicatesse, good taste, politicness, tactfulness, urbanity
Antonyms: carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness, tactlessness
Main Entry: wisdom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insight, common sense
Synonyms: acumen, astuteness, balance, caution, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, erudition, experience, foresight, gumption*, horse sense*, information, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, learning, penetration, perspicacity, poise, practicality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savoir faire, savvy*, shrewdness, sophistication, stability, understanding, brains, circumspection, clear thinking, good judgment, judiciousness, pansophy, sageness, solidity
Antonyms: ignorance, stupidity
Main Entry: astuteness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shrewdness
Synonyms: acumen, cleverness, intelligence, keenness, sagacity, understanding, wisdom, brains
Antonyms: ignorance, stupidity
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