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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caution, judgment |
| Synonyms: | acumen, attention, calculation, care, concern, consideration, deliberation, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, foresight, forethought, gumption, heed, maturity, observation, perspicacity, precaution, presence of mind, providence, prudence, responsibility, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, warning, watchfulness, wisdom, canniness, carefulness, chariness, circumspection, considerateness, good sense, heedfulness, judiciousness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, knack, mature, originality, perspicacity, power, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom, Einstein, aptness, brilliance, inventiveness, percipience, precocity, superability |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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