penetration

Noun

Meaning

The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.

Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

insight incursion discernment understanding entry invasion perception discrimination insertion infiltration piercing sharpness ingress seepage sagacity
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Antonyms

daze vertigo departure immigration breath insanity
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Hypernyms

attack deepness ability entry relation depth

Hyponyms

invasion raid infiltration foray permeation breakthrough

Phrases with the word

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Examples

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams

Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span. Bram van Velde

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. Camille Paglia

The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity. Sri Aurobindo

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. Niccolò Machiavelli

Close letter words and terms

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