From astute + -ness.
astuteness (usually uncountable, plural astutenesses)
- The quality of being astute.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 161:Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.
quality of being astute, also cleverness
- Arabic: دَهَاء (ar) m (dahāʔ)
- Basque: azerikeria
- Catalan: astúcia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 精明 (zh) (jīngmíng)
- Czech: prozíravost f, mazanost f, prohnanost f
- Finnish: neuvokkuus (fi)
- French: perspicacité (fr) f, sagacité (fr) f
- Gallurese: maltaria
- German: Gerissenheit f, Scharfsinn (de) m, Scharsinnigkeit f
- Irish: amhainse f (literary)
- Italian: astuzia (it) f, scaltrezza (it) f
- Portuguese: astúcia (pt) f
- Russian: проница́тельность (ru) f (pronicátelʹnostʹ) (discernment, insight), кова́рство (ru) n (kovárstvo) (craftiness)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: astùtzia, mágna, reflescia, rusa, trassa
- Logudorese: istucia, astùtzia
- Sassarese: astùtzia
- Spanish: astucia (es) f, sagacidad (es) f, letra menuda
- Turkish: açıkgözlük (tr), kurnazlık (tr), zekilik (tr)
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