perspicacity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌpɜː.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/    美 /ˌpɜːɹ.spɪˈkæs.ɪ.ti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Acute discernment or understanding; insight. uncountable,usually
    — "I understand," I said. "The fact is that you have the money." His face brightened. He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.
  2. The human faculty or power to mentally grasp or understand clearly. uncountable,usually
    — 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.
  3. Keen eyesight. obsolete,uncountable,usually
    — 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.

词形变化

perspicacities plural

词汇关系

相关词
perspicacious perspicaciousness perspicuity

词源

From
From perspicac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French perspicacité, from Latin perspicācitās (“sharpsightedness, discrimination”), from perspicio, from per- + specio, "see through (something)".
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