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
- second string
- second teeth
- second thought
- second thoughts
- second to none
- second wind
- Second World
- Second World War
- secrecy
- secret
- secret agent
- secretagogue
- secretaire
- secretarial
- secretariat
- secretary
- secretary bird
- secretary general
- Secretary of State
- secretaryship
- secret ballot
- secrete
- secretin
- Secret Intelligence Service
- ignition key