different between knowing vs perspicacious

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n????/
• Rhymes: -????

Adjective

knowing (comparative more knowing, superlative most knowing)

1. Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.

   • The knowing and intelligent part of the world.

2. Shrewd or showing clever awareness.

3. Suggestive of private knowledge.
4. Deliberate

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Verb

knowing

1. present participle of know

Derived terms

• knowingly

Noun

knowing (plural knowings)

1. The act or condition of having knowledge.
   • 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (60th Anniversary Edition, 1949, page 194)

     Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.

English

Etymology

First attested 1548, from Late Latin perspic?cit?s (“discernment”), from Latin perspicax (“sharp-sighted”), from perspici? (“look through”), from per- (“through”) + speci? (“look at”). See also perspective.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.sp??ke?.??s/
• (US) enPR: pûr'sp?·k?'sh?s, IPA^(key): /?p???.sp??ke?.??s/
• Rhymes: -e???s
• Hyphenation: per?spi?ca?cious

Adjective

perspicacious (comparative more perspicacious, superlative most perspicacious)

1. (figuratively) Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
2. (obsolete) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.

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See also

• clairvoyant
• conspicuous
• perspective