English Dictionary

perspicacity

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌpɜː.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 廃用

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

日本語の意味

鋭い洞察力、明晰な理解力 / 物事を明確に理解するための人間の能力 / （古語）鋭い視力

Her perspicacity in reading market trends saved the company from a costly mistake.

市場の動向を読み取る彼女の鋭い洞察力が会社を大きな損失から救った。

意味（1）

Acute discernment or understanding; insight.

I understand, I said. The fact is that you have the money. His face brightened. He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.

意味（2）

The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.

His very veneration for his father-in-law, combined as it is with a total want of the most ordinary perspicacity, is an additional disqualification.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Keen eyesight.

Attentive consideration of the phenomena of vision has led to the invention of artificial aids by which the sight may be wonderfully strengthened and preserved, and man endowed at once with the perspicacity of the eagle or the minute scrutiny of the insect.

perspicacities （ plural ）