Word Meanings - PENETRATIVENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being penetrative.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PENETRATIVENESS)

• acumen
• Point
• penetrativeness
• sharpness
• discernment
• talent
• sagacity

Related words: (words related to PENETRATIVENESS)

• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• DISCERNMENT
  1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness;
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• SHARPNESS
  The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
• POINTLETED
  Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.
• POINT D'APPUI
  See APPUI
• ACUMEN
  Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden. Syn. -- Sharpness; sagacity; keenness; shrewdness; acuteness.
• POINTING
  The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model. (more info) 1. The act of sharpening.
• POINT-BLANK
  1. The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. Jonson. With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory. With artillery, the point where the projectile
• PENETRATIVENESS
  The quality of being penetrative.
• SAGACITY
  The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. Some show that nice sagacity of smell. Cowper. Natural sagacity improved by generous
• POINTINGSTOCK
  An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock. Shak.
• POINTER
  One who, or that which, points. Specifically: The hand of a timepiece. One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen. pl.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• INTERPOINT
  To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• MALTALENT
  Ill will; malice. Rom. of R. Spenser.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• EMBONPOINT
  Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
• COUNTERPOINT
  An opposite point Sir E. Sandys.