Crossword-Solution: ACUITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Acuity | n. | Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “ACUITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Eagle eye's asset | 1 answer |
| the visual ability to resolve fine detail | 1 answer |
| What 20/10 vision demonstrates | 1 answer |
| Visual sharpness | 1 answer |
| Sharpness of vision | 1 answer |
| Sharpness of sight | 1 answer |
| Sharpness of perception | 1 answer |
| Sharp-sightedness | 1 answer |
| Sharp character | 1 answer |
| Quick and penetrating intelligence | 1 answer |
| Keenness of perception | 1 answer |
| Sharp vision | 2 answers |
| Mental sharpness | 4 answers |
| Keen perception | 6 answers |
| acuteness | 8 answers |
| Perceptiveness | 31 answers |
| Keenness | 41 answers |
| Sharpness | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ACUITY (5)
Everything in it rose before him and pressed itself upon his vision with the same acuity of distinctness as the objects surrounding him.
The exhaustion from the respiratory muscular efforts, together with the drowsy condition caused by the cerebral hyperemia and from the imperfectly aerated blood, causes finally a dulling of the mental acuity, and the nervous excitement abates, which, with the exhaustion, gives a relaxation of peripheral arterioles: the resistance to the flow of the blood is removed, the surface of the body becomes warm, the heart quiets down by the equalization of the circulation, and the paroxysm is over.
She could never be with people who had all the things she envied without being hypnotized into the belief that she had only to put her hand out to obtain them, and all the unassuaged rancours and hungers of her early days in West End Avenue came back with increased acuity.
The indubitable decrease of certain memory powers, of the acuity in measuring distance, of the time estimation, and similar psychical disturbances after alcohol, must evidently be of high importance for industry and transportation, while the well-known increase of the purely sensory sensibility, especially of the visual acuity after small closes of alcohol, hardly plays an important rôle in practical life.
Marquis) a critic seen to become over-exhilarated at the dining table or to address any author by his first name would promptly be haled from the room by a commissionaire lest his intellectual acuity become blunted by emotion.
Quotes with ACUITY (3)
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?
Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
Finally, I applied to one of my roommates, more sagacious than the rest, for advice. Dave, I said. I’m broke and without prospects. I’ve blown my GI Bill on flying lessons. I can’t hide out here in college much longer. What should I do? Well, he said, at this crucial juncture you need to coldly appraise yourself. “I’ve only known you these few short years, but it strikes me you wouldn’t be good for anything important; I’d have to say you’re lazy, self-absorbed, glib and facet…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 42 times in crossword archives (1971–2023).