All acuity synonyms

noun acuity

• aptitude — Someone's aptitude for a particular kind of work or activity is their ability to learn it quickly and to do it well.
• capacity — The capacity of a container is its volume, or the amount of liquid it can hold, measured in units such as litres or gallons.
• coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
• alertness — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
• trenchancy — incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit.
• mentality — mental capacity or endowment: a person of average mentality.
• brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
• reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
• brightness — the condition of being bright
• luminosity — luminance (def 2).
• quotient — the result of division; the number of times one quantity is contained in another.
• iq — intelligence quotient
• precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
• competence — Competence is the ability to do something well or effectively.
• know-how — the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.
• lookout — Cape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
• attentiveness — characterized by or giving attention; observant: an attentive audience.
• observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
• attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
• watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
• circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
• vigil — wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours for sleeping.
• watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
• deepness — extending far down from the top or surface: a deep well; a deep valley.
• percipience — perceiving or capable of perceiving.
• gray matter — Anatomy. nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, that contains fibers and nerve cell bodies and is dark reddish-gray. Compare white matter.
• what it takes — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
• understand — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
• carefulness — cautious in one's actions: Be careful when you cross the street.
• depth — The depth of something such as a river or hole is the distance downwards from its top surface, or between its upper and lower surfaces.