APERTNESS Synonyms

• intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

• shrewdness shown by keen insight

• a quick and penetrating intelligence

• a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

• thinness of edge or fineness of point

• a feeling of understanding

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• perception of that which is obscure

• the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

• intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

• a quick and penetrating intelligence

• the attribute of urgency in tone of voice

• a strong odor or taste property

• the quality of being keenly and painfully felt

• thinness of edge or fineness of point

• the quality of being sharp and clear

• harshness of manner

• intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

• a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

• intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

• elegance by virtue of being fashionable

• liveliness and eagerness