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penetration - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | penetration |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | act of entering |
| Synonyms: | diffusion, entrance, ingress, insertion, invasion, osmosis, piercing, seepage, forcing, infiltration, perforation, punching, stabbing, thrusting |
| Antonyms: | departure, egress, evacuation |
| Main Entry: | penetration |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | mental acuteness |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, astuteness, discernment, insight, perception |
| 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 |
| Notes: | clairvoyance is a form of ESP, precognition is seeing into the future, and telepathy is mind training and thought transference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incursion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | invasion |
| Synonyms: | aggression, attack, foray, inroad, intrusion, irruption, penetration, raid, infiltration |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
| Main Entry: | influx |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flow, rush |
| Synonyms: | arrival, convergence, entrance, incursion, introduction, inundation, invasion, penetration, coming in, inflow, inpouring, inrush |
| 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: | intuition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, clairvoyance, discernment, divination, feeling*, foreknowledge, gut reaction*, hunch*, inspiration, instinct, nose*, penetration, perception, premonition, presentiment, second sight*, sixth sense*, innate knowledge, intuitiveness, perceptivity |
| Antonyms: | knowledge, reason, reasoning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | transit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transportation |
| Synonyms: | alteration, carriage, conveyance, crossing, motion, movement, osmosis, passage, penetration, shift, shipment, transfer, transport, travel, traverse, carrying, infiltration, permeation, portage, transference, transporting |
| 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: | perspicacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight |
| Synonyms: | acumen, discernment, discrimination, penetration, perception, shrewdness, understanding |
| Main Entry: | absorption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assimilation, incorporation |
| Synonyms: | consumption, digestion, exhaustion, fusion, intake, osmosis, penetration, reception, retention, saturation, drinking in, imbibing, impregnation, ingestion, inhalation, soaking up, suction, taking in |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incision |
| Synonyms: | chip, chop, cleavage, cleft, dissection, fissure, furrow, gash, graze, groove, intersection, laceration, mark, nick, nip, notch, opening, passage, penetration, pierce, prick, rent, rip, sculpture, section, shave, slash, slit, slot, snip, stab, stroke, trench, trim, wound, carving, kerf, rabbet, scarification |
| Main Entry: | distinction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | differentiation; feature |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, analysis, characteristic, clearness, contrast, diagnosis, difference, discernment, discrepancy, discretion, discrimination, dissimilarity, divergence, division, earmark, estimation, individuality, judgment, mark, marking, nicety, peculiarity, penetration, perception, qualification, quality, refinement, sensitivity, separation, tact, alterity, differential, discreteness, dissemblance, dissimilitude, divergency, otherness, particularity, sharpness, unlikeness |
| Main Entry: | intelligence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to perceive, understand |
| Synonyms: | acumen, agility, alertness, aptitude, brightness, capacity, cleverness, comprehension, discernment, gray matter, intellect, judgment, luminosity, mentality, mind, penetration, perception, perspicacity, quickness, quotient, reason, sagacity, savvy, sense, skill, smarts, subtlety, understanding, wit, IQ, acuity, brainpower, brains, brilliance, coruscation, precocity, the right stuff, trenchancy, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common sense |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, apprehension, astuteness, awareness, capacity, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, experience, genius, grasp, ingenuity, intelligence, intuition, keenness, knowledge, mentality, penetration, perception, perspicacity, prudence, quickness, range, reach, readiness, reason, reasoning, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savvy, sense, shrewdness, sophistication, soundness, taste, understanding, wisdom, wit, brains, incisiveness, percipience, rationality, sharpness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inanity, stupidity, misjudgment |
| Main Entry: | notion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, idea |
| Synonyms: | angle, apprehension, approach, assumption, awareness, clue, comprehension, conceit, concept, conception, consciousness, consideration, cue, discernment, flash, hint, image, imagination, impression, inclination, indication, inkling, insight, intimation, intuition, judgment, knowledge, opinion, penetration, perception, sentiment, slant, spark, suggestion, telltale, thought, twist, understanding, view, wind, wrinkle, intellection |
| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comprehension, appreciation |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, discernment, discrimination, grasp, grip, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, ken, knowing, knowledge, mastery, penetration, perception, perspicacity, realization, reason, recognition, savvy, sense, wit, apperception, decipherment, perceptiveness, perceptivity, percipience, prehension, sharpness |
| Antonyms: | misunderstanding, misinterpretation |
| Main Entry: | depth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight, wisdom |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, brain, discernment, intellect, intelligence, keenness, penetration, sagacity, sense, acuity, profoundness, profundity, sharpness, weightiness |
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