Insight
Insight noun - The ability to understand inner qualities or relationships.
Smarts and insight are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Smarts" instead a noun "Insight".
Nearby Words: insightful, insider
Smarts
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A tough, cynical guy with a gun and a lot of Street Smarts, who solves mysteries with dogged persistence rather than astounding insight, the Hardboiled Detective was America's Darker and Edgier response to the classic ideal of the Great Detective.
Source: Hardboiled Detective -
Hardboiled Detective: A tough, cynical guy with a gun and a lot of Street Smarts, who solves mysteries with dogged persistence rather than astounding insight, the Hardboiled Detective was America's Darker and Edgier response to the classic ideal of the Great Detective.
Source: Mystery Fiction
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