All canniness synonyms

noun canniness

• alertness — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
• brightness — the condition of being bright
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• caution — Caution is great care which you take in order to avoid possible danger.
• thought — Informal. the act or a period of thinking: I want to sit down and give it a good think.
• planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
• attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
• vigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
• care — If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
• dexterity — Dexterity is skill in using your hands, or sometimes your mind.
• wit — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
• gumption — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
• quickness — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
• flair — a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack: a flair for rhyming.
• art — Art consists of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects which are created for people to look at and admire or think deeply about.
• tact — a keen sense of what to say or do to avoid giving offense; skill in dealing with difficult or delicate situations.
• maturity — the state of being mature; ripeness: The fruit will reach maturity in a few days.
• responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
• insight — an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.
• protection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
• safeguard — something that serves as a protection or defense or that ensures safety.
• insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
• gamesmanship — the use of methods, especially in a sports contest, that are dubious or seemingly improper but not strictly illegal.
• frugality — the quality of being frugal, or prudent in saving; the lack of wastefulness: Many people who have lived through periods of economic deprivation develop lifelong habits of frugality and are almost never tempted by wasteful consumption.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
• moderation — the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance.
• thrift — economical management; economy; frugality.
• guile — insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
• duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.
• artfulness — slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
• slyness — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
• astuteness — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• wiliness — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
• circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
• deliberation — Deliberation is the long and careful consideration of a subject.
• prudence — a female given name.
• foresight — care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
• caution — Caution is great care which you take in order to avoid possible danger.
• contrivance — If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
• discretion — the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment; freedom of judgment or choice: It is entirely within my discretion whether I will go or stay.
• precaution — a measure taken in advance to avert possible evil or to secure good results.
• heedful — taking heed; attentive; mindful; thoughtful; careful: She was always heedful of others' needs.
• providence — a state of the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast: a part of New England. 1214 sq. mi. (3145 sq. km). Capital: Providence. Abbreviation: RI (for use with zip code), R.I.
• forethought — thoughtful provision beforehand; provident care; prudence.
• heed — to give careful attention to: He did not heed the warning.
• watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.