Wits

noun
1.
the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure.
Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
2.
speech or writing showing such perception and expression.
Synonyms: banter, joking, witticism, quip, raillery, badinage, persiflage; bon mot.
3.
a person having or noted for such perception and expression.
Synonyms: wag, jester, epigrammatist, satirist.
4.
understanding, intelligence, or sagacity; astuteness.
Synonyms: wisdom, sense, mind.
5.
Usually, wits.

powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, ingenious contrivance, or the like; mental acuity, composure, and resourcefulness:
using one’s wits to get ahead.
Synonyms: cleverness, cunning, wisdom, insight, perspicacity, sacaciousness, acumen.
mental faculties; senses:
to lose one’s wits; frightened out of one’s wits.
Synonyms: mind, sanity; brains, marbles.

Idioms
6.
at one’s wit’s end, at the end of one’s ideas or mental resources; perplexed:
My two-year-old won’t eat anything but pizza, and I’m at my wit’s end.
7.
keep / have one’s wits about one, to remain alert and observant; be prepared for or equal to anything:
to keep your wits about you in a crisis.
8.
live by one’s wits, to provide for oneself by employing ingenuity or cunning; live precariously:
We traveled around the world, living by our wits.
plural noun
1.
(sometimes sing) the ability to reason and act, esp quickly (esp in the phrase have one’s wits about one)
2.
(sometimes sing) right mind, sanity (esp in the phrase out of one’s wits)
3.
at one’s wits’ end, at a loss to know how to proceed
4.
(obsolete) five wits, the five senses or mental faculties
5.
live by one’s wits, to gain a livelihood by craftiness and cunning rather than by hard work
noun
1.
(South African, informal) University of the Witwatersrand
noun
1.
the talent or quality of using unexpected associations between contrasting or disparate words or ideas to make a clever humorous effect
2.
speech or writing showing this quality
3.
a person possessing, showing, or noted for such an ability, esp in repartee
4.
practical intelligence (esp in the phrase have the wit to)
5.
(Scot & Northern English, dialect) information or knowledge (esp in the phrase get wit of)
6.
(archaic) mental capacity or a person possessing it
7.
(obsolete) the mind or memory
verb
1.
(archaic) to be or become aware of (something)
adverb
2.
to wit, that is to say; namely (used to introduce statements, as in legal documents)
wish list
WIT
witness (shortwave transmission)