Translation for "cacumen" to english

Cacumen

noun

• nous
• height

Translation examples

nous noun

El Profesor Rico me trataba con simpatía y benevolencia por mi cercanía a aquel, pero también con displicencia por mi juventud, al fin y al cabo él era quince años mayor que yo y me debía de ver como a uno de sus estudiantes, a los que despreciaba, vejaba y aterrorizaba con gran placer y bastante humor, el cual sus víctimas, sin embargo, no solían percibir, demostrando así su escaso cacumen o pesquis, según él (era aficionado a mezclar cultismos con expresiones de jerga o incluso soeces, para que no se creyera que vivía enteramente en el limbo de sus siglos idos).
Professor Rico always treated me kindly and benevolently because of my closeness to Muriel, but also somewhat dismissively because of my youth, he was, after all, fifteen years older than me and I was more or less the same age as his students, whom he took great pleasure in humorously despising, humiliating and terrorizing, although his victims seemed not to notice, thus demonstrating, according to him, their sad lack of little grey cells or nous (he loved to mix high-flown language with slang or sometimes even genuinely crude expressions, just so that we wouldn’t think he lived entirely in the limbo of centuries past). It was the same, indeed, with his teaching assistants, with most of his colleagues or supposed peers and almost every other being under the sun;