| Main Entry: | astuteness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shrewdness |
Synonyms: |
acumen, brains, cleverness, intelligence, keenness, sagacity, understanding, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
Synonyms: |
acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| 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: |
denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cunning |
Synonyms: |
artfulness, artifice, astuteness, canniness, craftiness, deceit, duplicity, guile, slyness, trickery, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | cleverness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brightness, ingenuity |
Synonyms: |
ability, adroitness, astuteness, brains, calculation, canniness, dexterity, discernment, flair, gift, gumption, intelligence, quick wit, quickness, resourcefulness, sagacity, sense, sharpness, shrewdness, skill, smartness, talent, wisdom, wit |
Antonyms: |
foolishness, ignorance, naievety, senselessness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | depth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight, wisdom |
Synonyms: |
acuity, acumen, astuteness, brain, discernment, intellect, intelligence, keenness, penetration, profoundness, profundity, sagacity, sense, sharpness, weightiness |
| Main Entry: | discrimination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | particularity in taste |
Synonyms: |
acumen, acuteness, astucity, astuteness, bias, clearness, decision, difference, differentiation, discernment, distinction, judgment, keenness, penetration, perception, percipience, perspicacity, preference, refinement, sagacity, sense, separation, shrewdness, subtlety, taste, understanding |
Antonyms: |
indifference |
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
Synonyms: |
Einstein, ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, aptness, astuteness, bent, brain, brilliance, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, knack, mature, originality, percipience, perspicacity, power, precocity, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, superability, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
idiot, imbecile |
| Main Entry: | gumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, initiative |
Synonyms: |
ability, acumen, astuteness, cleverness, commonsense, discernment, enterprise, get-up-and-go, good sense, horse sense, industry, judgment, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, resourcefulness, sagaciousness, sagacity, savvy, sense, shrewdness, spirit, wisdom, wit |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, naivety |
| Main Entry: | ingenuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleverness |
Synonyms: |
ability, adroitness, astuteness, brains, brightness, brilliance, creativity, cunning, dexterity, flair, genius, gumption, intelligence, inventiveness, resourcefulness, shrewdness, skill, smartness, talent, wisdom, wit |
| Main Entry: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common sense |
Synonyms: |
acumen, acuteness, apprehension, astuteness, awareness, brains, capacity, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, experience, genius, grasp, incisiveness, ingenuity, intelligence, intuition, keenness, knowledge, mentality, penetration, perception, percipience, perspicacity, prudence, quickness, range, rationality, reach, readiness, reason, reasoning, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savvy, sense, sharpness, shrewdness, sophistication, soundness, taste, understanding, wisdom, wit |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, inanity, misjudgment, stupidity |