Word of the Day

perspicacity \pur-spuh-KAS-uh-tee\, noun:

Clearness of understanding or insight; penetration, discernment.

• His predictions over the years have mixed unusual aristocratic insight with devastating perspicacity. --"Why fine titles make exceedingly fine writers," [1]Independent, November 3, 1996
  
• Doubtless these thumbnail sketches, like everything else Stendhal wrote, were intended ultimately to relate to his own notion of himself as a creature of invincible perspicacity and sophistication. --Jonathan Keates, [2]Stendhal

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Perspicacity comes from Latin perspicax, perspicac-, "sharp-sighted," from perspicere, "to look through," from per, "through" + specere, "to look."