perspicacity
- n intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
- n the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- That would take a perspicacity most politicians lack.
- But when the banker thinks of Indiana he thinks of Evans Woollen, a banker whose fortune is moderate, whose perspicacity unsurpassed.
- He was born on a distant planet called Krypton, whose inhabitants had a physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep .