noun
Meaning 1
Skill in deception, slyness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
craftiness
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noun
Meaning 2
the quality of being crafty
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deceitfulness, guile
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disingenuousness
noun
Meaning 3
shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English crafty Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English craftiness From crafty + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: úskočnost — skill in deception, slyness
- French: ruse — skill in deception, slyness
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌴𐌹 (filudeisei) — skill in deception, slyness
- Ancient Greek: πανουργία (panourgía) — skill in deception, slyness
- Hungarian: fortélyosság — skill in deception, slyness
- Hungarian: rafinéria — skill in deception, slyness
- Irish: lúbaireacht — skill in deception, slyness
- Italian: astuzia — skill in deception, slyness
- Latin: vulpēs — skill in deception, slyness
- Norwegian Bokmål: forslagenhet — skill in deception, slyness
- Norwegian Bokmål: listighet — skill in deception, slyness
- Norwegian Bokmål: sluhet — skill in deception, slyness
- Russian: хи́трость (xítrostʹ) — skill in deception, slyness
- Russian: лука́вство (lukávstvo) — skill in deception, slyness
- Russian: кова́рство (kovárstvo) — skill in deception, slyness
- Serbo-Croatian: препрѐдено̄ст — skill in deception, slyness
- Serbo-Croatian: preprèdenōst — skill in deception, slyness
- Spanish: astucia — skill in deception, slyness
- Spanish: picardía — skill in deception, slyness
- Swedish: slughet — skill in deception, slyness
- Turkish: kurnazlık — skill in deception, slyness
- Turkish: cerbeze — skill in deception, slyness
- Ottoman Turkish: قورنازلق (kurnazlık) — skill in deception, slyness
- Ottoman Turkish: شیطانلق (şeytanlık) — skill in deception, slyness
- Ottoman Turkish: جربزه (cerbeze) — skill in deception, slyness