Another word for tact
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Noun
The ability to say and do the right thing at the right time
- A string of keyboard characters serving as an assigned name or designation, as for a network mailbox, a website, etc.
- A name or number used in information storage or retrieval assigned to or identifying a specific memory location.
- A description of the location of a person or organization, as written or printed on mail as directions for delivery:
- The conducting of relations between nations, as in building up trade, making treaties, etc.
- The art or practice of conducting international relations, as in negotiating alliances, treaties, and agreements.
- Tact or skill in dealing with people:
- The ability to say or do the appropriate or graceful thing in social situations.
- The state or quality of being tactful.
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Another word for tact
Noun
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- Insight or knowledge gained by thinking:
- The act of perceiving or the ability to perceive; mental grasp of objects, qualities, etc. by means of the senses; awareness; comprehension
- The understanding, knowledge, etc. gotten by perceiving
- The act of discriminating, or distinguishing differences
- An act, policy, pattern of behavior, etc. characterized by such partiality
- Treatment or consideration based on class or category, such as race or gender, rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice.
- A legal decision; order, decree, or sentence given by a judge or law court
- The ability to come to opinions about things; power of comparing and deciding; understanding; good sense
- An opinion or estimate formed after consideration or deliberation, especially a formal or authoritative decision:
- An agency or organization whose purpose is to gather such information:
- (--- Psychol.) Measured success in using these abilities to perform certain tasks
- The ability to learn or understand from experience; ability to acquire and retain knowledge; mental ability
- Keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation; shrewdness
- Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight:
- Ordinary good sense or sound practical judgment
- Sound judgment not based on specialized knowledge.
- Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.
- The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly.
- The quality or condition of being subtle; esp., the ability or tendency to make fine distinctions
- The quality or state of being subtle.
- Something subtle, especially a nicety of thought or a fine distinction.
- The ability to distinguish; judgement.
- The power of discerning; keen perception or judgment; insight; acumen
- Keenness of insight and judgment.
- The basic unit of viscosity of a fluid in the CGS system, equal to the force measured in dynes per square centimeter needed to maintain a difference in velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes of a fluid separated by one centimeter (0.1 pascal second)
- Bearing of the body, especially when graceful:
- (Now Rare) A suspension of activity in a condition of balance
- The conducting of relations between nations, as in building up trade, making treaties, etc.
- Skill in doing this
- The art or practice of conducting international relations, as in negotiating alliances, treaties, and agreements.
- The ability to say or do the appropriate or graceful thing in social situations.
- A female given name, one of the Puritan virtue names.
- The quality or fact of being prudent
- The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.
- Suitability; the quality of being apt or suitable
- Disposition of the mind; propensity
- Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility
- Delicacy or elegance of language, speech, manners, etc.; polish; cultivation
- The act, or the result of refining; the removal of impurities, or a purified material
- A keen or precise phrasing; a subtle distinction.
- Something pleasing and appealing, especially a choice food.
- Fineness of feeling, observation, or appreciation
- Sensitivity of perception, discrimination, or taste; refinement.
- (Uncountable) Skill in handling of a situation.
- (Bridge) An attempt to take a trick with a lower card while holding a higher card not in sequence with it, made in the hope that the intervening card is in the hand of the opponent who has already played
- Refinement and delicacy of performance, execution, or artisanship.
- (Idiomatic) Common sense, especially with a connotation of folk wisdom independent from, and trumping, formal education.
Antonyms:
Synonym Study
- Savoir-faire implies a ready knowledge of the right thing to do or say in any situation his savoir-faire helped advance his career
- Diplomacy implies a smoothness and adroitness in dealing with others, sometimes in such a way as to gain one's own ends his lack of diplomacy lost him the contract
- Poise implies composure in the face of disturbing or embarrassing situations despite the taunts of the crowd, she maintained her poise
- Tact implies the skill of one who has a quick and delicate sense of what is fitting and thus avoids giving offense in dealing with persons or difficult situations it will require tact to keep him calm
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