Acumen: alternatives and connections

Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an ac…

In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understand…

The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensifie…

Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear-eyed bigot.

Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are bl…

The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.

In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly.

Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.

Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate…

Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and character.

The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their…

The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choi…

The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from others; exercise of…

Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.

Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.

The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in t…

Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, tas…