Acumen versus Acuity versus Acuteness
These are more like a alien to general public as we don’t use them much often and this result’s that at time of their need either we were not able to recall them or end up using the wrong one. The terms “acumen”, “acuity” and “acuteness” sounds very familiar to each other it becomes both confusion and irritating to remember the difference between them.
In this article we shall try to see the difference between all three and also we will try to build sentence using so that to get ourselves more familiar with these terms.
Use of acumen, acuity and acuteness in sentences
Acumen |
Acuity |
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Important Note
As we have gone the differences and usage of the terms above now it becomes important to us to have knowledge of their right pronunciation as all the three terms can be really confusing at the time of their requirement.
Also See: Acute versus Chronic
Acuteness is pronounced as əˈkjuːt.nəs
Acumen is pronounced as əˈkjuː.mən
Acuity is pronounced as əˈkjuː.ə.ti
Summary
To sum things up the term acumen describes about having knowledge of insight and is mostly referred to a positive situation whereas the term acuity is the keenness of physical attribute either be vision or hearing or any other sense and at the end the term acuteness refers to the understanding and a highly developed physical sense.
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As one can see there is a bit overlapping between the meaning of the term acuity and acuteness and the only difference between them is acuteness is used more often in day to day business than the term acuity.