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SHREWDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
Synonyms:
astuteness; perspicaciousness; perspicacity; shrewdness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("shrewdness" is a kind of...):
intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)
Domain category:
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shrewdness"):
craft; craftiness; cunning; foxiness; guile; slyness; wiliness (shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception)
acumen; insightfulness (shrewdness shown by keen insight)
knowingness (shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge)
street smarts (a shrewd ability to survive in a dangerous urban environment)
Derivation:
shrewd (marked by practical hardheaded intelligence)
shrewd (acting with a specific goal)
