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She has neither the visual nor mental acuity to drive.acuity = ability
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The detective’s mental acuity allowed her to solve complex cases that baffled other investigators.acuity = uncommon ability
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The sculptor's weathered hands, calloused but nimble, moved with breathtaking acuity across the marble.acuity = sensitivity and ability
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After her eye surgery, she experienced a significant improvement in her visual acuity.acuity = ability
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They've got visual acuity we forgot we ever had. (source)acuity = uncommon ability
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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
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My blindfold was off but I still possessed a hyperacuity of the senses.† (source)hyperacuity = extreme ability to perceivestandard 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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"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
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People assumed great mental acuity from someone who took no notes. (source)acuity = ability
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Whatever his physical handicap as a result of the stroke, there was nothing wrong now with his intellectual acuity. (source)
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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
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He saw and heard everything with great acuity, as though someone had taken sandpaper to all his senses to make him fantastically alert.† (source)
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He had difficulty concentrating for any length of time, but as the day progressed, his mental acuity increased.† (source)
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The slight but inhuman acuity of his incisors was just visible against his lower lip when he grinned like that.† (source)
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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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