Need another word that means the same as “smartness”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “smartness” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Smartness” are: smart, smarting, alacrity, briskness, brightness, cleverness, chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, stylishness, swank
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “smartness” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| alacrity | Liveliness and eagerness. He accepted with alacrity. |
| brightness | The quality or state of being well lit. The brightness of a winter s day. |
| briskness | Liveliness and eagerness. |
| chic | Stylishness and elegance, typically of a specified kind. The hotel s lobby and restaurant are the height of designer chic. |
| chichi | Elegance by virtue of being fashionable. |
| chicness | Elegance by virtue of being fashionable. |
| cleverness | Intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty. People marvelled at his cleverness. |
| last word | A unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds. |
| modishness | Elegance by virtue of being fashionable. |
| smart | A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore. I don t think I have the smarts for it. |
| smarting | A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore. Ammonia can cause smarting of the eyes and breathing difficulties. |
| stylishness | Elegance by virtue of being fashionable. |
| swank | Behaviour, talk, or display intended to impress others. A little money will buy you a good deal of swank. |
| astute | Having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one’s advantage. An astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease. |
| clever | Sensible; well advised. He taught the dog to perform some very clever tricks. |
| discerning | Unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic. A discerning critic. |
| elite | A group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status. The country s governing elite. |
| highbrow | A highbrow person. Highbrow events such as the ballet or opera. |
| intellectual | Relating to the intellect. A prominent political thinker and intellectual. |
| intelligence | Information in general; news. British intelligence has secured numerous local informers. |
| intelligent | (of a device or building) able to vary its state or action in response to varying situations and past experience. An intelligent solution. |
| judgment | The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions. He was reluctant to make his judgment known. |
| judiciously | With good judgement or sense. His work has been carefully and judiciously edited. |
| judiciousness | Good judgment. |
| knowing | Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding. A knowing act of fraud. |
| knowledge | Information held on a computer system. The transmission of knowledge. |
| knowledgeable | Thoroughly acquainted through study or experience-W.H.Hudson- Herbert Read. A knowledgeable critic. |
| learned | Used as a courteous description of a lawyer in certain formal contexts. An article in a learned journal. |
| lettered | Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding. Though not lettered he read widely. |
| literati | Well-educated people who are interested in literature. |
| mindset | The established set of attitudes held by someone. The region seems stuck in a medieval mindset. |
| perspicacious | Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning. Much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument. |
| perspicacity | Intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings. The perspicacity of her remarks. |
| sagacious | Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; wise or shrewd. They were sagacious enough to avoid any outright confrontation. |
| sagacity | The quality of being sagacious. A man of great political sagacity. |
| sapience | Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight. |
| sapient | (chiefly in science fiction) intelligent. Sapient life forms. |
| sapiential | Characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God. I saw them as sapiential metaphors far more meaningful than their didactic pretext. |
| savvy | Shrewdness and practical knowledge; the ability to make good judgements. Many of us pride ourselves on being savvy enough to spot a fake. |
| sensible | Done or chosen in accordance with wisdom or prudence; likely to be of benefit. Even amoeba are sensible creatures. |
| understanding | Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy. He and I have an understanding. |
| wisdom | An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC. Some questioned the wisdom of building the dam so close to an active volcano. |
| wise | Improperly forward or bold. A wise and perceptive comment. |
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