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All cleverness synonyms

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noun cleverness

  • brightness — the condition of being bright
  • dexterity — Dexterity is skill in using your hands, or sometimes your mind.
  • wit — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
  • gumption — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
  • quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
  • flair — a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack: a flair for rhyming.
  • 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.
  • discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
  • sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
  • ability — Your ability to do something is the fact that you can do it.
  • gift — gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
  • calculation — A calculation is something that you think about and work out mathematically. Calculation is the process of working something out mathematically.
  • intelligence — capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
  • sharpness — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
  • resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
  • adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
  • shrewdness — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
  • talent — a special natural ability or aptitude: a talent for drawing.
  • skill — the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well: Carpentry was one of his many skills.
  • astuteness — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
  • smartness — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
  • brains — an animal's brain, cooked and eaten as food
  • canniness — the quality of being canny
  • ingenuity — the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity.
  • adeptness — very skilled; proficient; expert: an adept juggler.
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