astuteness

名词 n.
/əˈst͡ʃuːtnəs/|/əˈstjuːtnəs/    /əˈstutnəs/|/əˈstjutnəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being astute. uncountable,usually
    — Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.

词形变化

astutenesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
English astute
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English astuteness
From astute + -ness.
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