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ACUITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quick and penetrating intelligence
Example:
I admired the keenness of his mind
Synonyms:
acuity; acuteness; keenness; sharpness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("acuity" is a kind of...):
intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acuity"):
steel trap (an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)
Synonyms:
acuity; sharp-sightedness; visual acuity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("acuity" is a kind of...):
sight; vision; visual modality; visual sense (the ability to see; the visual faculty)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acuity"):
20/20; twenty-twenty (normal visual acuity, as measured by the ability to read charts at a distance of 20 feet)
oxyopia (unusually acute vision)
