Need another word that means the same as “acuity”? Find 26 synonyms and 30 related words for “acuity” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Acuity” are: sharp-sightedness, acuteness, keenness, sharpness, insight, discernment, perception, perceptiveness, intelligence, quick-wittedness, cleverness, smartness, incisiveness, trenchancy, astuteness, shrewdness, subtlety, clarity, discrimination, sensitivity, thoughtfulness, profundity, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, sagacity
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “acuity” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| acuteness | Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem. Dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell. |
| astuteness | The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas. |
| clarity | The quality of clear water. It was clarity of purpose that he needed. |
| cleverness | The power of creative imagination. The cleverness of her strategy. |
| discernment | The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations. A man of discernment. |
| discrimination | Recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another. Discrimination learning. |
| incisiveness | Keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect. |
| insight | Grasping the inner nature of things intuitively. The town offers some insight into Finnish rural life. |
| intelligence | The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. The gathering of intelligence. |
| keenness | A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something. I admired the keenness of his mind. |
| perception | Knowledge gained by perceiving. He wouldn t have accepted said my mother with unusual perception. |
| perceptiveness | The quality of insight and sympathetic understanding. |
| percipience | The quality of having sensitive insight or understanding; perceptiveness. Age has not impaired his percipience. |
| perspicacity | The quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness. The perspicacity of her remarks. |
| perspicuity | Clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous. |
| profundity | The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas. The simplicity and profundity of the message. |
| quick-wittedness | Intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay. |
| sagacity | The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations. A man of great political sagacity. |
| sensitivity | Sensitivity to emotional feelings of self and others. A galvanometer of extreme sensitivity. |
| sharp-sightedness | Sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart. |
| sharpness | A quick and penetrating intelligence. His health and mental sharpness declined. |
| shrewdness | The quality of having or showing good powers of judgement. He is a man of some tactical shrewdness. |
| smartness | A kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore. The smartness of the pace soon exhausted him. |
| subtlety | The quality of being difficult to detect or analyze. The textural subtlety of Degas. |
| thoughtfulness | The trait of thinking carefully before acting. The question will be approached with thoughtfulness. |
| trenchancy | Keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect. She opines with characteristic trenchancy. |
| acrid | Harsh or corrosive in tone. Acrid smoke. |
| acute | Denoting or designed for patients with an acute form of a disease. An acute housing shortage. |
| acutely | In a way that shows a perceptive understanding or insight. She pitied her sister acutely. |
| astute | Having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one’s advantage. An astute businessman. |
| awl | A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes. |
| canine | A pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars of a mammal, often greatly enlarged in carnivores. Most primates use their canine teeth for fighting. |
| canny | Having or showing shrewdness and good judgement, especially in money or business matters. Canny investors will switch banks if they think they are getting a raw deal. |
| clipper | (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform. The Cutty Sark a tea clipper built in 1869. |
| discriminating | Showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste. He became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts. |
| fang | Hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison. The dog was bounding towards him its fangs bared. |
| hock | Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany hock is British usage. |
| incisive | (of an account) accurate and sharply focused. The most incisive move of a tight match. |
| insightful | Exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception-R.C.Angell. Thank you for all the insightful comments. |
| intelligence | People employed in the collection of military or political information. The gathering of intelligence. |
| keen | Having a sharp cutting edge or point. A keen wind cut through their thick overalls. |
| keenness | Thinness of edge or fineness of point. I admired the keenness of his mind. |
| penetrating | Able to make a way through or into something. Penetrating insight. |
| perceptive | Of or relating to perception. A perceptive eye. |
| piercing | A ring, stud, or other piece of jewellery worn in a pierced part of the body. Piercing knifelike pains. |
| pike | Used in names of predatory fish with large teeth other than the true pike e g garpike. |
| piquant | Having an agreeably pungent taste. A piquant face with large appealing eyes. |
| pungent | Capable of wounding. The pungent taste of radishes. |
| razor | Shave with a razor. The tapered cut is razored to give movement. |
| scalpel | A thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery. |
| scissors | A gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move. A dummy scissors from David Thomas deceived the opposition. |
| sharp | A long sharply pointed needle used for general sewing. A sharp drop. |
| shrewd | Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence. A shrewd career move. |
| shrill | Utter a shrill cry. The shrill of a smoke detector filled the air. |
| sickle | An edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle. |
| whet | Sharpen by rubbing as on a whetstone. The selection of quotations may whet your curiosity to investigate the source material. |
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