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What is the noun for cunningness?

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cunning
  1. Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity.
  2. Practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit.
  3. The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.
  4. The natural wit or instincts of an animal.
  5. (obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge).
  6. Synonyms:
      7. deviousness, slyness, artfulness, trickery, craftiness, deceit, deception, chicanery, cunningness, deceitfulness, deceptiveness, dishonesty, fraud, guile, subtlety, trickiness, ability, artifice, cheating, crookedness, dissimulation, duplicity, fakery, guilefulness, wiliness, cageyness, caginess, cozenage, crookery, dissembling, dupery, finesse, foxiness, maneuvers, manoeuvres, ploys, schemes, slickness, sneakiness, stratagems, subterfuges, subtleness, tactics, wiles, craft, ruses, tricks, double-dealing, fraudulence, canniness … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “The scoundrel would use cunning and guile to lure unwitting victims into his harebrained scheme.”
      “We relied on the cunning of our guide to lead us safely out of the wilderness.”
cunningness
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being cunning
  2. (countable) A cunning act
  3. Synonyms:
      4. cunning, guile, artifice, craftiness, wiliness, craft, deceit, duplicity, deception, foxiness, dishonesty, fraud, guilefulness, deceitfulness, cheating, deviousness, artfulness, crookedness, slyness, dissimulation, dissembling, deceptiveness, fakery, crookery, cozenage, subtlety, dupery, canniness, slickness, sneakiness, subtleness, perspicacity, double-dealing, chicanery, trickery, caginess, cageyness, underhandedness, fraudulence, trickiness, shadiness, treachery, hanky-panky, shiftiness, sharp practice, wiles, knavery, improbity, chicane, jiggery-pokery … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “She loathes cunningness, and thinks a cunning person is definitely dishonest.”
      “A combination of cunningness and single-minded determination is, he believes, a key to the Hawick psyche.”
      “But the wiles he shows, the cunningness he exhibits and opportunism that he cashes on made him a hit.”
cunningnesses
  1. plural of cunningness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cunnings, guiles, artifices, craftinesses, wilinesses, crafts, deceits, duplicities, deceptions, foxiness, dishonesties, frauds, guilefulness, deceitfulnesses, cheatings, deviousnesses, artfulnesses, crookednesses, slynesses, dissimulations, dissemblings, deceptiveness, fakeries, crookeries, cozenages, subtleties, duperies, canniness, slicknesses, sneakiness, subtlenesses, perspicacities, double-dealings, chicaneries, trickeries, caginess, cageyness, underhandedness, fraudulences, trickinesses, wiles, shadinesses, treacheries, subterfuges, hanky-panky, shiftinesses, sharp practices, knaveries, improbities, chicanes … more
cunnings
  1. plural of cunning
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deviousnesses, slynesses, artfulnesses, trickeries, craftinesses, deceits, deceptions, chicaneries, cunningnesses, deceitfulnesses, deceptiveness, dishonesties, frauds, guiles, subtleties, trickinesses, abilities, artifices, cheatings, crookednesses, dissimulations, duplicities, fakeries, guilefulness, wilinesses, cageyness, caginess, cozenages, crookeries, dissemblings, duperies, finesses, foxiness, maneuvers, manoeuvres, ploys, schemes, slicknesses, sneakiness, stratagems, subterfuges, subtlenesses, tactics, wiles, crafts, ruses, tricks, double-dealings, deftnesses, resourcefulnesses … more
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