astuteness

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astuteness

/əˈst͡ʃuːtnəs/ UK
/əˈstjuːtnəs/ UK
/əˈstutnəs/ US
/əˈstjutnəs/ US

noun astutenesses

uncountable, usually The quality of being astute. Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.

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noun quality of being astute, also cleverness

Español	astucia, sagacidad, letra menuda
中文	精明 jīngmíng
Português	astúcia
Français	perspicacité, sagacité
Deutsch	Gerissenheit, Scharfsinn, Scharsinnigkeit
Italiano	astuzia, scaltrezza
Русский	проница́тельность pronicátelʹnostʹ, кова́рство kovárstvo
العربية	دَهَاء dahāʔ

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@misc{astuteness_2026,
  title = {astuteness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/astuteness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}