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People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
Brian Reynolds Myers

Meaning of "cleverness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CLEVERNESS

cleverness  [ˈklevənɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLEVERNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cleverness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CLEVERNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of cleverness in the English dictionary

The definition of cleverness in the dictionary is the quality of being clever; intelligence.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLEVERNESS


awareness
əˈwɛənɪs
baroness
ˈbærənɪs
bitterness
ˈbɪtənɪs
deaconess
ˈdiːkənɪs
dearness
ˈdɪənɪs
drunkenness
ˈdrʌŋkənɪs
eagerness
ˈiːɡənɪs
fairness
ˈfɛənɪs
governess
ˈɡʌvənɪs
lioness
ˈlaɪənɪs
otherness
ˈʌðənɪs
Romanes
ˈrɒmənɪs
self-awareness
ˈsɛlfəˈwɛənɪs
sourness
ˈsaʊənɪs
tenderness
ˈtɛndənɪs
thoroughness
ˈθʌrənɪs
togetherness
təˈɡɛðənɪs
unawareness
ˌʌnəˈwɛənɪs
unfairness
ʌnˈfɛənɪs
wilderness
ˈwɪldənɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLEVERNESS

cleromancy
cleruch
cleruchial
cleruchies
cleruchy
cleveite
Cleveland
Cleveland Bay
clever
clever dick
clever-clever
cleverality
cleverdick
cleverish
cleverly
clevis
clew
clew line
clew up

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLEVERNESS

a voice in the wilderness
Barrow-in-Furness
betterness
business
clearness
die in harness
farness
Furness
globularness
harness
in harness
in the wilderness
Inverness
nearness
poorness
queerness
Sheerness
slenderness
soberness
somberness
the Wilderness

Synonyms and antonyms of cleverness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CLEVERNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «cleverness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of cleverness

Translation of «cleverness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLEVERNESS

Find out the translation of cleverness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cleverness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cleverness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

聪明
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inteligencia
570 millions of speakers

English

cleverness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चतुराई
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذكاء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ум
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esperteza
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চালাকি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

intelligence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepandaian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Klugheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

賢さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

영리함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pinter
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người thông minh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புத்திசாலித்தனம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हुशारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

akıllılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intelligenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spryt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розум
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inteligență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξυπνάδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slim
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skicklighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dyktighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cleverness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLEVERNESS»

The term «cleverness» is regularly used and occupies the 63.160 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLEVERNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cleverness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cleverness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cleverness

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10 QUOTES WITH «CLEVERNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cleverness.
1
Henri Frederic Amiel
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
2
William Bernbach
Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
3
Tom Brown, Jr.
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
4
Raymond Chandler
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
5
Aleister Crowley
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
6
Thomas Huxley
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
7
Leon Kass
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
8
Donna Mills
I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.
9
Brian Reynolds Myers
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
10
Joel Salatin
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLEVERNESS»

Discover the use of cleverness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cleverness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Cleverness of boys
The differences between boys and girls, in development and attitude to learning are well documented, and a formalised early curriculum emphasises these differences.
Sally Featherstone, Ros Bayley, 2013
2
Cleverness Vs Intelligence: We Are So Busy Being Clever That ...
We live topsy-turvy lives. This book is a collection of 80 write-ups in which I use age-old wisdom with personal exprience to explore subjects and situations we are confronted with every day.
Pradeep Maheshwari, 2008
3
The Cleverness Of Ladies [Quick Reads]
With his trademark gift for storytelling, international bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith brings us five tales of love, heartbreak, hope and the cleverness of ladies.
Alexander McCall Smith, 2012
4
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry, an orphan, lives with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley.
J.K. Rowling, 2012
5
Practical Reason, Aristotle, and Weakness of the Will
According to Aristotle, cleverness (demotes) is the ability to do whatever allows a person to achieve what he or she is aiming at. Practical wisdom involves cleverness (1144a24-28), but it involves more than cleverness (1 144a28-29).
Norman O. Dahl, 1984
6
The Making of an Economist, Redux
Applied Empirical Micro: A Bit Too Much Cleverness? The focus on statistical techniques separated from theory and judgment has led to an increase in the value of what might be called cleverness in applied micro empirical research.
David Colander, 2008
7
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle on Ethics
... is praiseworthy; if it is base, then cleverness is just unscrupulousness. So we describe both people of practical wisdom and those who are unscrupulous as clever. But practical wisdom is not just cleverness, though it does require cleverness.
Gerard J. Hughes, 2001
8
Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out
There is no need to worry, our cleverness will pull us through (Simon, 1981). The belief in human cleverness is central to the belief that we can continue to grow; it is an element in all the arguments I discuss. The belief that cleverness will pull ...
Lester W. Milbrath, 1989
9
Elemental Spectra
Just as air and earth form a major diametrical antithesis in relation to fire and water, which I have elsewhere described as minor, so wisdom and folly form such an antithesis, with cleverness and stupidity taking the minor position in between.
John O'Loughlin, 2010
10
Reading Aristotle's Ethics: Virtue, Rhetoric, and Political ...
This is different from the successful deliberation of a bad person who thereby attains something evil. The latter case evidences only cleverness (demotēs), something that is presupposed by, but not identical to, prudence (6.12.1 144a27- 29).
Aristide Tessitore, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLEVERNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cleverness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Andy McGeady: spy stories from the frontline and the backroom
The honest methods are those requiring cleverness of eye, mind, and hand without outside assistance.” Back in 1912, when that book was ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
2
'Portal Stories: Mel' is a surprisingly difficult but imaginative game …
The game creates the effect of discovery and cleverness by allowing players to repeat already known patterns as if they were their own. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
3
Everything We Know So Far About Obama's Secret Trade Deal
In order to facilitate this cleverness at every turn, trade barriers have to be torn down and replaced with ever more freedom, glorious freedom. «VICE, Jul 15»
4
Amy Poehler & Tina Fey Collaborate Again in 'Sisters' Due out in …
... Amy Poehler is in a position of not only success but also cleverness and sophistication. This has to be said because although she has been ... «Mstarz, Jul 15»
5
Tactical Analysis | Chile 0-0 Argentina (4-1 on penalties) | Managers …
... duties that their dribbles and passing seemed to just lack that little bit of cleverness that would normally take them past their opponents. «Outside of the Boot, Jul 15»
6
Melvyn Fein
So many parents want their children to be brilliant successes that they insist this cleverness be reflected in stellar grades. It does not matter how ... «Marietta Daily Journal, Jul 15»
7
Lucius II: The Prophecy
... released was buggy, awkward, and oppressively linear, but it was peppered with glimpses of a twisted sense of humor and dark cleverness. «Adventure Gamers, Jul 15»
8
Proverb of the day: One qirat of good luck is better than a whole …
Proverb of the day: One qirat of good luck is better than a whole feddan of cleverness. One qirat of good luck is better than a whole feddan of ... «Ahram Online, Jul 15»
9
Scout report - Is Chelsea's Bertrand Traore ready to make the grade …
He also hit a volley against the same opposition to indicate his deadly instinct inside the box to go with his grace and cleverness outside of it. «Sportskeeda, Jul 15»
10
Rotten to the core
He has damaged the party to the extent, which Dictator General Zia ul Haq with all his cleverness and hypocrisy was not able to achieve. «The Nation, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cleverness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cleverness>. Apr 2024 ».
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