canniness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: can=ni=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

canniness, n. 

 Caution; crafty management.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

canniness

Italian hand, acuteness, animal cunning, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, austerity, austerity program, cageyness, calculation, callidity, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, chariness, circumspection, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation, deviousness, discreetness, discretion, economic planning, economicalness, economy, economy of means, false economy, fine Italian hand, finesse, forehandedness, foresight, forethought, foxiness, frugality, frugalness, gamesmanship, gingerliness, good management, guardedness, guile, guilefulness, hedge, hedging, heed, heedfulness, hesitation, husbandry, ingeniousness, insidiousness, inventiveness, judiciousness, low cunning, management, mindfulness, one-upmanship, parsimoniousness, parsimony, pawkiness, precaution, prior consultation, providence, prudence, prudential administration, prudentialness, readiness, regardfulness, resourcefulness, safeness, safety first, satanic cunning, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slickness, slipperiness, slowness to act, slyness, sneakiness, solicitude, sophistry, sparingness, stealth, stealthiness, subtility, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, tentativeness, thoroughness, thrift, thriftiness, tight purse strings, trickiness, uncommunicativeness, unprecipitateness, unwastefulness, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit