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All acumen synonyms

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noun acumen

  • intuition — direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.
  • awareness — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
  • ingenuity — the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity.
  • intelligence — capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
  • sensitivity — the state or quality of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
  • insight — an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.
  • brilliance — great brightness; radiance
  • wisdom — the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.
  • wit — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
  • shrewdness — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
  • judgment — an act or instance of judging.
  • intellect — the power or faculty of the mind by which one knows or understands, as distinguished from that by which one feels and that by which one wills; the understanding; the faculty of thinking and acquiring knowledge.
  • vision — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
  • guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
  • acuity — Acuity is sharpness of vision or hearing, or quickness of thought.
  • perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • perspicacity — keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
  • refinement — fineness or elegance of feeling, taste, manners, language, etc.
  • keenness — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
  • sharpness — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
  • understanding — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
  • discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
  • sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
  • acuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
  • comprehension — Comprehension is the ability to understand something.
  • perspicuity — clearness or lucidity, as of a statement.
  • discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
  • grasp — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
  • smarts — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
  • cleverness — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
  • astuteness — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
  • cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
  • farsightedness — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
  • brains — an animal's brain, cooked and eaten as food
  • smartness — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
  • percipience — perceiving or capable of perceiving.
  • penetration — the act or power of penetrating.
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