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acuity
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  • After her eye surgery, she experienced a significant improvement in her visual acuity.
    acuity = ability
  • They've got visual acuity we forgot we ever had.  (source)
    acuity = uncommon ability
  • His singular intellectual acuity, lost in the beatings from the Quack, returned to him.  (source)
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  • On a scale of 2 to 10, where 2 represents unusual dullness and 10 extreme acuity, Beebe (1926) gave the sloth's senses of taste, touch, sight and hearing a rating of 2, and its sense of smell a rating of 3.  (source)
    acuity = uncommon ability to perceive
  • My blindfold was off but I still possessed a hyperacuity of the senses.†  (source)
    hyperacuity = extreme ability to perceive
    standard prefix: The prefix "hyper-" in hyperacuity means extreme. This is the same pattern as seen in words like hypersensitive, hyperactive, and hypercritical.
  • "I'm so sorry," I repeated, more urgently, aware just how clumsy I sounded, as if by speaking more loudly I might convey my acuity of sorrow.  (source)
    acuity = pronounced sensitivity
  • People assumed great mental acuity from someone who took no notes.  (source)
    acuity = ability
  • Whatever his physical handicap as a result of the stroke, there was nothing wrong now with his intellectual acuity.  (source)
  • To see with acuity Sophie's vision bloomed, and the darkened chamber came to blazing light, every shadow picked out in exquisite detail.†  (source)
    acuity = uncommon ability to perceive
  • He saw and heard everything with great acuity, as though someone had taken sandpaper to all his senses to make him fantastically alert.†  (source)
  • He had difficulty concentrating for any length of time, but as the day progressed, his mental acuity increased.†  (source)
  • The slight but inhuman acuity of his incisors was just visible against his lower lip when he grinned like that.†  (source)
  • After a quarter of an hour, his faculties had regained their usual acuity, so he resumed studying the colony of red ants that he had discovered the day before.†  (source)
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