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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
| Antonyms: | denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | ingenuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleverness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, astuteness, brains, brightness, brilliance, creativity, cunning, dexterity, flair, genius, gumption, intelligence, inventiveness, resourcefulness, shrewdness, skill, smartness, talent, wisdom, wit |
| Main Entry: | style |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fashionableness |
| Synonyms: | chichi*, comfort, cosmopolitanism, craze, dash, delicacy, dernier cri, dressiness, ease, elegance, fad, flair, grace, grandeur, luxury, mode, panache, polish, rage, refinement, savoir-faire, smartness, sophistication, stylishness, taste, thing*, urbanity, vogue, élan |
| Antonyms: | unstylishness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brilliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genius |
| Synonyms: | brilliancy, cleverness, excellence, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, sagacity, smartness, smarts, talent, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | brilliancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | genius |
| Synonyms: | brilliance, cleverness, excellence, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, sagacity, smartness, smarts, talent, wisdom |
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| Concept: | Style. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language (eloquence); authorship; la morgue littéraire.
-verbs
express by words; write.
-phrases
le style est l'homme même [Buffon]; "style is the dress of thoughts " [Chesterfield].
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