Noun: smartness smaa(r)t-nus
- Intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
"The child's smartness impressed all her teachers";
- brightness, cleverness
- Elegance by virtue of being fashionable
"The smartness of her outfit impressed everyone";
- chic, chicness, chichi, modishness, stylishness, swank [informal], last word
- Liveliness and eagerness
"the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him";
- alacrity, briskness
- A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
"The smartness from the paper cut lingered for hours";
- smart, smarting
Type of: elegance, elegancy [archaic], hurting, intelligence, life, liveliness, pain, spirit, sprightliness
Encyclopedia: Smartness