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
- unprovisioned
- unprovocative
- Franconia
- Franconian
- Franconia Notch
- Francophile
- Francophilia
- Francophobe
- Francophobia
- francophone
- Francophonia
- Franco-Prussian War
- francs-archer
- franc-tireur
- franger
- frangible
- frangipane
- frangipani
- franglais
- frank
- frankalmoign
- Frank, Anne
- franked investment income
- Frankenfish
- Frankenfood