Usually means: Shrewdness in practical matters; astuteness.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. canniness: Merriam-Webster
  2. canniness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. canniness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. canniness: Wordnik
  5. canniness: Wiktionary
  6. canniness: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Canniness, canniness: Dictionary.com
  8. Canniness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. canniness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Canniness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. canniness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Canniness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. canniness: Legal dictionary

(Note: See canny as well.)

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noun:  The state or quality of being canny.

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