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sagacity

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Main Entry: sagacity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: wisdom

Synonyms:

acumen, astuteness, brains, clear thinking, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, experience, foresight, good judgment, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, levelheadedness, perceptiveness, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, sageness, sapience, sense, shrewdness, understanding
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: 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: discretion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: caution, judgment

Synonyms:

acumen, attention, calculation, canniness, care, carefulness, chariness, circumspection, concern, considerateness, consideration, deliberation, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, foresight, forethought, good sense, gumption, heed, heedfulness, judiciousness, maturity, observation, perspicacity, precaution, presence of mind, providence, prudence, responsibility, sagacity, sense, shrewdness, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, warning, watchfulness, wisdom

Antonyms:

carelessness, indiscretion, thoughtlessness
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: foresight
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental preparedness

Synonyms:

anticipation, canniness, care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, clairvoyance, discernment, discreetness, discretion, economy, far-sightedness, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, long-sightedness, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prenotion, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity

Antonyms:

hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness
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: insight
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intuitiveness, awareness

Synonyms:

acumen, click*, comprehension, discernment, divination, drift*, intuition, judgment, observation, penetration, perception, perceptivity, perspicacity, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sapience, shrewdness, understanding, vision, wavelength, wisdom

Antonyms:

ignorance, stupidity
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