ACUITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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))

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)