cleverness
/ˈklɛvənəs
/noun [mass noun]
The quality of being clever; intelligence or shrewdness: people marvelled at his cleverness the cleverness of her strategy...
- Your compilers seem to have confused cleverness with wisdom.
- However, her cleverness and talent for witty banter makes it so she never comes across as being oppressed.
- Reinventing and inverting images of Irishness, Jordan associates him with intelligence, cleverness, and wit.
Synonyms
intelligence, brilliance, genius, intellect;
precocity, precociousness, talent, ability, capability, competence, proficiency;
education, learnedness, erudition, bookishness, knowledgeableness, sagacity, wisdom
informal braininess, brains
North American informal smarts
shrewdness, astuteness, sharp-wittedness, quick-wittedness, acuteness, acuity;
ingenuity, ingeniousness, resourcefulness, canniness, cunning, craftiness, artfulness, wiliness