SMARTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does smartness mean? 

• SMARTNESS (noun)
  The noun SMARTNESS has 4 senses:

1. a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

2. intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

3. elegance by virtue of being fashionable

4. liveliness and eagerness

  Familiarity information: SMARTNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMARTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

smart; smarting; smartness

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

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

Derivation:

smart (painfully severe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

brightness; cleverness; smartness

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

intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)

Derivation:

smart (showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness)

smart (characterized by quickness and ease in learning)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Elegance by virtue of being fashionable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

chic; chichi; chicness; last word; modishness; smartness; stylishness; swank

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

elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "smartness"):

dapperness; jauntiness; nattiness; rakishness (stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance)

Derivation:

smart (elegant and stylish)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Liveliness and eagerness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

alacrity; briskness; smartness

Context example:

the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him

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

life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)

Derivation:

smart (quick and brisk)

 Context examples 

When their promised visit to the Park and consequent introduction to these young ladies took place, they found in the appearance of the eldest, who was nearly thirty, with a very plain and not a sensible face, nothing to admire; but in the other, who was not more than two or three and twenty, they acknowledged considerable beauty; her features were pretty, and she had a sharp quick eye, and a smartness of air, which though it did not give actual elegance or grace, gave distinction to her person.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)