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Shrewdness vs Genius - What's the difference?

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Shrewdness is a related term of genius.


As nouns the difference between shrewdness and genius

is that shrewdness is the quality of being shrewd while genius is genius (extraordinary mental capacity).

shrewdness

English

Noun

(shrewdnesses)
  • The quality of being shrewd.
  • An invented collective name for a group of apes.
  • genius

    English

    (wikipedia genius)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) ingenious, very clever, or original.
  • What a genius idea!

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (eulogistic) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • Extraordinary mental capacity.
  • Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
  • (Roman mythology) The guardian spirit of a place or person.
  • A way of thinking, optimizing one's capacity for learning and understanding.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * idiot