smartness
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- noun
- /ˈsmɑrt.nəs/
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ingenio
- Her smartness in solving difficult problems impressed everyone during the team meeting.
Would you make a distinction between smartness, intelligence, wisdom, and cleverness?
- Would you make a distinction between smartness, intelligence, wisdom, and cleverness?
- But be careful to not let your sense of their smartness be a reason that you second guess yourself.
- So the notion of a smart drug, or a drug that can induce smartness, if you will, is simply not grounded in science.
- That's why you're smart, because you are smart enough to follow my smartness.
- There's a like for some people like the word intelligence, smartness is not a word of power to them.
Examples
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The teacher appreciated her smartness, especially when she quickly understood complex ideas.
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No matter how she tried to hide her smartness, everyone seemed to be mad at her for it.
Fiction book (2000) -
We're often trying to show off our smartness to each other, or avoid being judged as not smart enough.
Academic text (2016) -
In the book, you describe research on different aspects of smartness, various facets of intelligence.
Academic text (2016) -
But she was smart, smarter than Floyd, the kind of smartness that sometimes got you in trouble with people.
Fiction book (1994) -
I find I just keep returning to Adam's case study for bite-sized nuggets of smartness.
Blog text (27) -
In the domains of creativity, especially artistic creativity, there's very little overlap with traditional smartness.
Academic text (2016) -
Various human cultures have observed the smartness of corvids, birds like crows, Ravens, and Jays for a long time.
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I admire his smartness; he always knows how to respond cleverly in conversations.
Synonyms
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3.0
Ability to learn, understand, and use knowledge to solve problems
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4.0
Ability to think quickly and say clever, amusing things
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2.8
Quick thinking that finds smart new ideas and solutions
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8.3
Short, clever answers that make people laugh or the skill of giving them in conversation
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3.5
To think and react quickly when things go wrong
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3.8
A quick, clear way of thinking that helps solve problems
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6.4
Quick, clear thinking that helps you understand and decide
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3.8
A quick mind that shows itself by saying smart, funny things
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4.1
To make quick, clever, funny comments that amuse people
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4.1
Ability to think and respond very fast in the mind
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6.3
Skill in judging people or situations and using it to gain advantage
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4.1
A quick mind that understands things clearly
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6.9
Skill in understanding people or situations quickly and using that to your advantage
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5.0
The ability to make quick clever remarks that make people laugh
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4.8
Quick thinking that helps you understand and answer fast
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5.2
A quality of being very smart and thinking quickly
To think and answer fast and cleverly
Thinking quickly and understanding things easily
To think and answer quickly and correctly, especially when solving problems
A quick clear mind that notices small details
A mind that thinks quickly and makes sensible decisions
Practical cleverness for solving everyday problems
Antonyms
How Clever
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Smartness meaning cleverness comes from the same idea as smart, which gave the sense 'sharp' for the mind. So smartness is having a quick, clever way of thinking.