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Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.

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  1. n. Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
  2. n. a tapering point
  3. n. shrewdness shown by keen insight
  4. Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden. Syn. -- Sharpness; sagacity; keenness; shrewdness; acuteness.
  5. Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind;the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.