Perspicacia in english
Insight
pronunciation: ɪnsaɪt part of speech: noun
pronunciation: ɪnsaɪt part of speech: noun
In gestures
perspicacia = acumen ; perspicuity ; shrewdness ; perspicacity ; insight ; penetration.
Example: Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.Example: I feel particularly happy to be associated on this occasion with Mr. Gorman whose writings I have admired for some time not only for their thoughtfulness and perspicuity but for the style and wit they have brought to the literature of cataloging.Example: If the incomplete question is difficult to detect at the initial stage, to recognise those instances where it may be the wrong question that is being asked requires almost a sixth sense, or at least an uncommon shrewdness.Example: The reference librarian must possess the sensitivity and perspicacity to observe the reactions of his enquirer to the progress of the search, so that it can be adjusted and redirected more precisely towards the desired objective.Example: The greatest living theoretician of descriptive cataloging, Professor Seymour Lubetzky, graced our library with his brilliance, insight, and fierce dedication to the integrity of the catalog.Example: Even writing that we reject for its shallowness, its lack of penetration, demands in the very act of rejection that we match what we know of life, and of other literature, against what this writer offers = Even writing that we reject for its shallowness, its lack of penetration, demands in the very act of rejection that we match what we know of life, and of other literature, against what this writer offers.more:
» con perspicacia = perceptively .
Example: Above all evaluation must be carried out regularly and perceptively.» perspicacia política = political acumen .
Example: Political will and political acumen can also make a difference in what legislators and governors accomplish in the contest between the two contending branches.