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Shrewdness vs Percipience - What's the difference?

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Shrewdness is a related term of percipience.


As nouns the difference between shrewdness and percipience

is that shrewdness is the quality of being shrewd while percipience is perception.

shrewdness

English

Noun

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

    • percipience

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • perception
  • The state or condition of being highly perceptive, as if in an almost hypnotic or telepathic state.
    • 1891' ''She lay in a state of '''percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.'' — Thomas Hardy, '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

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