perspicacia

f.

1 insight, perceptiveness.

2 perspicacity, clear-sightedness, farsightedness, sharp insight.

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perspicacia

► nombre femenino

1 sharpness, perspicacity

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SF

1) (=agudeza mental) perceptiveness, shrewdness

2) (=agudeza visual) keen-sightedness

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femenino shrewdness, insight

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= acumen, perspicuity, shrewdness, perspicacity, insight, penetration.

Ex. Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

Ex. I feel particularly happy to be associated on this occasion with Mr. Gorman whose writings I have admired for some time not only for their thoughtfulness and perspicuity but for the style and wit they have brought to the literature of cataloging.

Ex. If the incomplete question is difficult to detect at the initial stage, to recognise those instances where it may be the wrong question that is being asked requires almost a sixth sense, or at least an uncommon shrewdness.

Ex. The reference librarian must possess the sensitivity and perspicacity to observe the reactions of his enquirer to the progress of the search, so that it can be adjusted and redirected more precisely towards the desired objective.

Ex. The greatest living theoretician of descriptive cataloging, Professor Seymour Lubetzky, graced our library with his brilliance, insight, and fierce dedication to the integrity of the catalog.

Ex. Even writing that we reject for its shallowness, its lack of penetration, demands in the very act of rejection that we match what we know of life, and of other literature, against what this writer offers = Incluso las lecturas que rechazamos por su superficialidad, por su falta de agudeza, requieren en el acto mismo del rechazo que comparemos lo que conocemos de la vida, y de otra literatura, con lo que nos ofrece su autor.

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* con perspicacia = perceptively.

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femenino shrewdness, insight

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= acumen, perspicuity, shrewdness, perspicacity, insight, penetration.

Ex: Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

Ex: I feel particularly happy to be associated on this occasion with Mr. Gorman whose writings I have admired for some time not only for their thoughtfulness and perspicuity but for the style and wit they have brought to the literature of cataloging.

Ex: If the incomplete question is difficult to detect at the initial stage, to recognise those instances where it may be the wrong question that is being asked requires almost a sixth sense, or at least an uncommon shrewdness.

Ex: The reference librarian must possess the sensitivity and perspicacity to observe the reactions of his enquirer to the progress of the search, so that it can be adjusted and redirected more precisely towards the desired objective.

Ex: The greatest living theoretician of descriptive cataloging, Professor Seymour Lubetzky, graced our library with his brilliance, insight, and fierce dedication to the integrity of the catalog.

Ex: Even writing that we reject for its shallowness, its lack of penetration, demands in the very act of rejection that we match what we know of life, and of other literature, against what this writer offers = Incluso las lecturas que rechazamos por su superficialidad, por su falta de agudeza, requieren en el acto mismo del rechazo que comparemos lo que conocemos de la vida, y de otra literatura, con lo que nos ofrece su autor.

* con perspicacia = perceptively.

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perspicacia

feminine

shrewdness, insight, perspicacity (frml)

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perspicacia sustantivo femenino
shrewdness, insight
perspicacia sustantivo femenino perceptiveness, shrewdness
'perspicacia' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
claridad
- sagacidad
- agudeza
- miope
- miopía
- ojo
- olfato
English:
insight
- perceptiveness
- acumen
- perception

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perspicacia nf

insight, perceptiveness;

actuó con perspicacia she acted shrewdly

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perspicacia

f shrewdness, perspicacity fml

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perspicacia nf

: shrewdness, perspicacity, insight