acuity

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French acuité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin acuitas, irreg., from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin acuō (“sharpen”).

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈkjuːɪti/

Noun

acuity (plural acuities)

1. Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.

Related terms

• acute
• acutance
• acuteness
• acuition

Translations

sharpness or acuteness

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銳利／锐利 (zh) (ruìlì), 锐利 (zh) (ruìlì), 尖銳／尖锐 (zh) (jiānruì), 尖锐 (zh) (jiānruì), 敏銳／敏锐 (zh) (mǐnruì), 敏锐 (zh) (mǐnruì)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: scherpte (nl) f
• Esperanto: sagaceco
• Finnish: terävyys (fi)
• French: acuité (fr) f
• German: Schärfe (de) f
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• Greek: οξυδέρκεια (el) f (oxydérkeia)
• Italian: acutezza (it) f
• Polish: ostrość (pl) f
• Portuguese: acuidade (pt) f
• Romanian: acuitate (ro) f
• Russian: острота́ (ru) f (ostrotá), ре́зкость (ru) f (rézkostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: oštrina (sh) f, akuitet m
• Spanish: acuidad (es) f, agudeza (es) f
• Swedish: skärpa (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} percepció (ca) f
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} scherpzinnigheid
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• French: ^{(please verify)} perception (fr) f
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} discernere (ro), ^{(please verify)} percepere (ro), ^{(please verify)} sesizare (ro)

Further reading

• “acuity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “acuity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “acuity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.