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Slyness vs Shrewdness - What's the difference?

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Slyness is a related term of shrewdness.


As nouns the difference between slyness and shrewdness

is that slyness is (uncountable) the state or quality of being being sly while shrewdness is the quality of being shrewd.

slyness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being being sly.
  • ''With his natural slyness , he was able to talk his way out of trouble.
  • (countable) The result or product of being sly.
  • Synonyms

    * craftiness

    shrewdness

    English

    Noun

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