Associations to the word «Perspicacity»

Wiktionary

PERSPICACITY, noun. Acute discernment or understanding; insight.
PERSPICACITY, noun. The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
PERSPICACITY, noun. (obsolete) Keen eyesight.

Dictionary definition

PERSPICACITY, noun. Intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings).
PERSPICACITY, noun. The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne