acuityin a sentence
- has neither the visual nor mental acuity to drive
- His singular intellectual acuity, lost in the beatings from the Quack, returned to him.† (source)
- 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)
- They've got visual acuity we forgot we ever had.† (source)
- "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)
- He had difficulty concentrating for any length of time, but as the day progressed, his mental acuity increased.† (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)
- He saw and heard everything with great acuity, as though someone had taken sandpaper to all his senses to make him fantastically alert.† (source)
- The slight but inhuman acuity of his incisors was just visible against his lower lip when he grinned like that.† (source)
- Whatever his physical handicap as a result of the stroke, there was nothing wrong now with his intellectual acuity.† (source)
- People assumed great mental acuity from someone who took no notes.† (source)
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- Dinosaurs have excellent visual acuity, but they have a basic amphibian visual system: it's attuned to movement.† (source)
- In a voice loud enough for only Roran to hear—though Eragon and Arya did as well with their catlike acuity—she said, "I loved Quimby.† (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)
- Lately he'd been cloudy of thought and clumsy of gait, and it made a perfect and terrible sense that there was something growing there, eating away at him, sapping him of vitality, squeezing away all acuity and purpose.† (source)
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My blindfold was off but I still possessed a hyperacuity of the senses.†
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standard prefix: The prefix "hyper-" in hyperacuity means extreme. This is the same pattern as seen in words like hypersensitive, hyperactive, and hypercritical.
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