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Intelligence that remembered to bring a getaway car.
means The quality of being quick-witted and resourceful, especially in a way that gets practical results.
from From 'clever,' which popped up in English dialects around the 16th–17th century meaning skillful or dexterous — its roots before that are genuinely murky, possibly tied to East Anglian dialect words for 'claw' or 'grasp' (the idea of deftly seizing hold of something), though etymologists aren't fully certain. The '-ness' is just the standard Old English suffix for turning a quality into a noun, bolted on to make the trait abstract and nameable.
- vs wisdom
- knows how to win, not whether to
- etymology
- old english cliver meant skilled with hands
- risk
- often mistaken for competence until it isnt
- best use
- solving problems cleverness itself created