ASTUTENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does astuteness mean? 

• ASTUTENESS (noun)
  The noun ASTUTENESS has 2 senses:

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

2. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

  Familiarity information: ASTUTENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTUTENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

astuteness; perspicaciousness; perspicacity; shrewdness

Hypernyms ("astuteness" 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 "astuteness"):

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:

astute (marked by practical hardheaded intelligence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

astuteness; deepness; depth; profoundness; profundity

Hypernyms ("astuteness" is a kind of...):

sapience; wisdom (ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight)

 Context examples 

Inspector Baynes, who, with his usual astuteness, had minimised the incident before me, had really recognised its importance and had left a trap into which the creature walked.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Speaking professionally, it was admirably done,” cried I, looking in amazement at this man who was forever confounding me with some new phase of his astuteness.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)