acumen vs acuity vs acuteness
Definitions
noun
- shrewdness shown by keen insight
- a tapering point
Examples
The blogosphere, meanwhile, is beginning to show signs of commercial acumen: "Lots of bloggers, over time, make a good living – perhaps a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year from advertising.
Pay packets are therefore largely determined by the skills and acumen of other financiers.
In the meantime, managing without a steady income is providing a stern test of her financial acumen.
Definitions
noun
- a quick and penetrating intelligence
- sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)
Examples
Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori.
The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow.
The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow.
Definitions
noun
- a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed
- a quick and penetrating intelligence
- the quality of having a sharp edge or point
Examples
This movement sounded a bit broader than I am used to or would have expected: it plays with acuteness and every note gets its accentuation, its declamation.
It was this hyperacuteness that made him decide that he was being stalked.
Another hazard of being a former president, it seems, is that you feel the force of your successors' policy reversals with all the acuteness of personal slights.
