Similar words
picardía
picardía often implies a mischievous, playful cunning, a roguish charm; astucia is more purely cunning or shrewdness, without the playful edge.
Similar in other languages
Portuguese
astúcia
astúcia is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "cunning."
Portuguese
manha
manha is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "cunning."
Practice
1 What does astucia mean?
cunning
2 Fill the gap: Escapó con ___.
Full sentence: Escapó con astucia. (He escaped by cunning.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches astucia?
astucia: neutral register, academic frequency, general domain, neutral connotation.