Perspicacity

Definitions: Perspicacity

Perspicacity

Noun

1. Intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings).

2. The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions.

Date "perspicacity" was first used: 1548. (references)

Synonyms: Perspicacity

Synonyms: astuteness (n), judgement (n), judgment (n), perspicaciousness (n), shrewdness (n), sound judgement (n), sound judgment (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Intelligence Wisdom	Noun: intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe , savvy ; intellect; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness; Adjective: acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination; cunning; refinement; (taste).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Perspicacity

English words defined with "perspicacity": Perspicacy. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Nor can I yield, relent, or Only two synonyms? Oh my God, I'm losing my perspicacity! Aaaaa! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Perspicacity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Perspicacity" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	13	97,576

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "perspicacity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mprehtësi (acuity, acumen, acuteness, clairvoyance, discernment, edge, insight, penetration, poignancy, quickness, resourcefulness, salt, sharpness, subtlety), mendjemprehtësi (acumen, sagacity, shrewdness), mendjehollësi (clairvoyance, insight, shrewdness). (various references)

Arabic		‏فطنة (acuity, acumen, acuteness, astuteness, discernment, insight, intellect, keenness, sagacity, shrewdness, wit), ‏نفوز البصر, ‏وضوح (boldness, candidness, clarification, clarity, clearness, distinctness, frankness, intelligibility, limpidity, lucidity, nakedness, obviousness, visibility), ‏حدة الذهن (sharpness, subtlety), ‏سهولة (breeze, ease, easiness, facility, freedom, readiness), ‏ثقوب الفكر, ‏بعد النظر (providence). (various references)

Bulgarian		проницателност (acuity, acumen, discernment, edge, fathom, fineness, insight, penetration, sagacity, shrewdness), прозорливост (acumen, sagacity), предвидливост (foreseeing, foresight, forethought). (various references)

Czech		ostrovtip (sagacity), dùvtip (quickness, sconce, wit), bystrozrak. (various references)

Farsi		فراست (Insight, Intelligence, Intuition, Sagacity), کیاست , زیرکی (Agility, Brilliance, Cogency, Cunning, Intelligence, Sagacity, Subtlety), شخص تیزبین . (various references)

French		perspicacité (perceptiveness), clairvoyance. (various references)

German		scharfsinn (acuity, acumen, acuteness, astuteness, brilliance, brilliancy, clairvoyance, discernment, farsightedness, sagacity, shrewdness, subtlety). (various references)

Greek		οξυδέρκεια (acuity, insight, sharpness), διορατικότησ (perceptiveness). (various references)

Hebrew		שנינות (cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, salt, sarcasm, subtlety, wit), חדות התפיסה. (various references)

Hungarian		tisztánlátás (clairvoyance, discernment). (various references)

Italian		perspicacia (acumen, acuteness, aptitude, keenness, knowingness, shrewdness), sagacia (astuteness, knowingness, sagacity, vision, wisdom), acume (acumen, astuteness, sharpness). (various references)

Manx		gyere hastaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		erspicacitypay

Portuguese		perspicácia (acuity, acumen, acuteness, aptitude, astuteness, clairvoyance, discharge, insight, quickness, sagacity, vision, wit), penetrante (acerbic, biting, bitter, clear-sighted, discrimination, in depth, incisive, keen, penetrating, penetrative, pervasive, piercing, pointed, screaming, screamy, searching, sharp, sharply, shooting, shrill, smart, subtil, subtile, subtle), lucidez (lucidity), agudeza de espírito. (various references)

Romanian		perspicacitate (acumen, flair, insight, sagacity, vision), pãtrundere (acumen, acuteness, comprehensiveness, entrance, in-going, ingress, insight, intelligence, interpenetration, intromission, penetration, permeation, pervasion, understanding, vision), agerime (alacrity, discernment, edge, quickness, sharpness, subtlety, wit). (various references)

Russian		проницательность (acumen, astuteness, clairvoyance, discernment, discrimination, insight, long head, penetration, poignancy, sagacity, shrewdness, vision). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pronicljivost (clairvoyance, discernment, penetration, poignancy), visprenost (smartness). (various references)

Spanish		perspicacia (acumen, acuteness, clearheaded, clearheadedness, clear-sightedness, discernment, discrimination, insight, sharpness, sharp-sightedness, shrewdness). (various references)

Swedish		skarpsinne (acuity, acumen, discrimination, insight, penetration, sagacity), klarsynthet (clairvoyance, perceptivity). (various references)

Turkish		kavrayış (comprehension, reach, realization, savvy, understanding), idrak (apperception, appreciation, cognation, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, grasp, grip, intelligence, nous, perception, percipience, realization). (various references)

Ukranian		проникливість (acumen, acuteness, astuteness, clairvoyance, discernment, penetration, perspicuity, sagacity, shrewdness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự sáng trí, sự sáng suốt (discernment, discrimination, insight, judiciousness, policy), sự minh mẫn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	perspicax. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	perspicacitas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Perspicacity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perpiscacity, persicacity, persipicacity, perspacacity, perspecacity, perspicasity, perspicicity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "perspicacity" (pronounced 'Per`spi*cac"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-p-p-r-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: accipiters.
	-3 letters: accipiter, cityscape, crappiest, practices.
	-4 letters: apyretic, asperity, caprices, crappies, crispate, epicarps, icterics, papistic, papistry, paretics, parities, pasticci, periapts, picrates, picrites, piracies, practice, practise, priciest, scarcity.
	-5 letters: accepts, airiest, apprise, arctics, ascetic, ascitic, aseptic, cappers, caprice, carices, carpets, crappie, cretics, cristae, critics, cryptic, epicarp, episcia, eristic, icecaps, icteric, ipecacs, paretic, parties, pastier, peccary.
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