Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Acuteness of vision or perception; keenness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sharpness; acuteness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Sharpness oracuteness , as of aneedle ,wit , etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quick and penetrating intelligence
- noun sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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AGENT ORANGE, annoyed: Your visual acuity is uncanny.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » I submit within a month… 2010
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Terry Pratchett, who has early-onset Alzheimer's (and whose mental acuity is still fine) has written a stirring editorial on the need to legalize suicide in the UK.
Boing Boing 2009
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AGENT ORANGE, annoyed: Your visual acuity is uncanny.
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She just turned 90, and her mental acuity is better than most people half her age.
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This favorable assessment of Marcos 'mental acuity is shared by foreign observers, Alexander Cockburn, the acerbic English Marxist who writes a column for The Nation, rarely has anything but disdain for the intellect of other writers.
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This favorable assessment of Marcos 'mental acuity is shared by foreign observers, Alexander Cockburn, the acerbic English Marxist who writes a column for The Nation, rarely has anything but disdain for the intellect of other writers.
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This favorable assessment of Marcos 'mental acuity is shared by foreign observers, Alexander Cockburn, the acerbic English Marxist who writes a column for The Nation, rarely has anything but disdain for the intellect of other writers.
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This has left much of the training of journalists to the junior colleges, which re the least qualified in acuity and course standards.
Woodstein U: Notes on the Mass Production and Questionable Education of Journalists 1977
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This has left much of the training of journalists to the junior colleges, which re the least qualified in acuity and course standards.
Woodstein U: Notes on the Mass Production and Questionable Education of Journalists 1977
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Schumer’s political acuity is increasingly guiding Senate Democrats.
yarb commented on the word acuity
It was the precise photographic picture of that other room. Everything in it rose before him and pressed itself upon his vision with the same acuity of distinctness as the objects surrounding him.
- Edith Wharton, The Reef
June 18, 2008