shrewdness

Other forms of shrewdness

plural

shrewdnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shrewdness

What does shrewdness mean?

shrewdness means "intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)".

How many syllables are in shrewdness?

shrewdness has 2 syllables: shrewd-ness. The stress falls on "shrewd". In IPA it is /ˈʃɹudnəs/.

What is another word for shrewdness?

Close synonyms include astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shrewdness a common word?

shrewdness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.