shrewdness
/ˈʃruːdnəs
/noun [mass noun]
1The quality of having or showing good powers of judgement: he is a man of some tactical shrewdness...
- Offering critics a helping hand by planting for their use a ready-made descriptive vocabulary reflects his shrewdness of strategy.
- He is constantly reminding them that "it's a business" and the charmed life they have led in the media is mainly due to his shrewdness and accessibility.
- While his shrewdness commands respect, it also inspires fear.
Synonyms
astuteness, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, acuteness, acumen, acuity, intelligence, cleverness, smartness, alertness, wit, canniness, common sense, discernment, insight, understanding, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness, discrimination, knowledge, sagacity, sageness;
cunning, artfulness, craftiness, wiliness, calculation, calculatedness
informal nous, horse sense, savvy
rare sapience, arguteness
2 [count noun] rare A group of apes.If a shrewdness of apes is so clever, why do they live where they do?...
- I am rousing a decidedly unshrewd shrewdness of apes.
- I'd still be tempted to run if we encountered a number of huge hairy apes, but it's nice to know that we're escaping from a shrewdness of apes.
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