acuity
/əˈkjuːɪti
/noun [mass noun]
Sharpness or keenness of thought, vision, or hearing: intellectual acuity visual acuity...
- We must engage visual, hearing and speaking acuity.
- Nothing is more important to the development of acuity in visual thought than drawing.
- Here though, I'm uncertain whether Boshoff's chosen subject matter is able to carry both his intellectual acuity and visual dexterity.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French acuite or medieval Latin acuitas, from Latin acuere 'sharpen' (see acute).
Rhymes
- black haw
- Black Hawk
- blackhead
- black-headed
- black-headed bunting
- black-headed gull
- black heart
- black-hearted
- black-heartedness
- black heat
- black helicopter
- black hellebore
- black helmet
- Black Hills
- black history
- black hole
- Black Hole of Calcutta
- black house
- Black, Hugo
- black humor
- black humour
- Black Hundred
- Black Hundreds
- black ice
- blackie