See perspicacity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"expansion": "perspicacity (usually uncountable, plural perspicacities)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"per‧spi‧cac‧i‧ty"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "perspicacious"
},
{
"word": "perspicaciousness"
},
{
"word": "perspicuity"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1904, Jack London, chapter 8, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"I understand,\" I said. \"The fact is that you have the money.\" His face brightened. He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1994, John H. Makin, Norman J. Ornstein, Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What We Can Do about It, New York, NY: Times Books, →ISBN, page 52:",
"text": "The citizens chose a university. They reasoned, with considerable perspicacity, that taxes come and go in response to political considerations, but a university, once established, is a permanent benefit to a city and a nation.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2019 April 23, Heller McAlpin, “In McEwan's Latest, The 'Machine' Is Too Much Like You”, in NPR:",
"text": "McEwan certainly has a flair for unusual points of view. Adam, like the baby-in-waiting who narrates Nutshell, is an extraordinarily smart, well-informed, and unorthodox character who catches his supposed caretakers off-guard with his perspicacity.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Acute discernment or understanding; insight."
],
"links": [
[
"Acute",
"acute"
],
[
"discernment",
"discernment"
],
[
"understanding",
"understanding"
],
[
"insight",
"insight"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1856, “Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 98, page 458:",
"text": "His very veneration for his father-in-law, combined as it is with a total want of the most ordinary perspicacity, is an additional disqualification.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1888, “Review of La suggestion mentale by H. Bourru and P. Burot”, in The American Journal of Psychology, volume 1, number 3, page 503:",
"text": "As the former consists in the transmission of psychic states inappreciable to the normal perspicacity or senses, the transfer cannot pass through the medium of intelligence.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly."
],
"links": [
[
"mentally",
"mentally"
],
[
"grasp",
"grasp"
],
[
"understand",
"understand"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1833, John Harrison Curtis, A Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Eye, London: Longman, page 138:",
"text": "Attentive consideration of the phenomena of vision has led to the invention of artificial aids by which the sight may be wonderfully strengthened and preserved, and man endowed at once with the perspicacity of the eagle or the minute scrutiny of the insect.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Keen eyesight."
],
"links": [
[
"Keen",
"keen"
],
[
"eyesight",
"eyesight"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Keen eyesight."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɜː.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"enpr": "pûrʹspĭ·kăsʹə·tē",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɜːɹ.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pronicatelnost",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "проницателност"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perspicàcia"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dongchali",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "洞察力"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "skarpsindighed"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "verloop"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "sagaco"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "tarkkanäköisyys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perspicacité"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "Weitblick"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Scharfsinn"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "oxydérkeia",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "οξυδέρκεια"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "éleselméjű"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "kecerdikan"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perspicacità"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dōsatsu",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "洞察"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ansik",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "안식"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perspicācitās"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "vērīgums"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "nuovokumas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "proníklivost",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "прони́кливост"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "تدبیر،"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "przenikliwość"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perspicácia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perspicacitate"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pronicátelʹnostʹ",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "проница́тельность"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "prezieravosť"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "pronicljivost"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "perspicacia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "klarsynthet"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "talisik"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "katalisikan"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "algı"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "idrak"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pronyklyvistʹ",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "проникливість"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "Acute discernment or understanding; insight",
"word": "زیرکی"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prozorlivost",
"sense": "The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "прозорливост"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly",
"word": "sagaco"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Auffassungsgabe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Auffassungsvermögen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Scharfsinn"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "proníklivost",
"sense": "The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "прони́кливост"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pronicátelʹnostʹ",
"sense": "The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "проница́тельность"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Keen eyesight",
"word": "tarkkanäköisyys"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"perspicacity"
],
"word": "perspicacity"
}
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