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perspicacity

n.
UK //pəspɪkˈæsɪti// per·spi·cac·i·ty Archaic
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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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