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noun

keenness, insight, penetration, perspicacity, percipience, discernment, sharpness, acuteness, astuteness, sagacity, cleverness, shrewdness, accuracy, intelligence, wisdom, long-headedness, understanding, comprehension, intuition, sensitivity, vision, grasp, perception, smartness, brilliance, farsightedness, keensightedness, awareness, cunning, guile, acuity, wit, quickness of perception, perspicuity, mental acuteness, mother wit, esprit (French), foresightedness, quick sense, quickness, intellect, discrimination, judgment, good taste, refinement, brains*, horse sense*, know-how*, high I.Q.*, smarts*.

Antonyms stupidity*, dullness, obtuseness.

See acumen in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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