Acumen vs Vacuity - What's the difference?
acumen | vacuity |
Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
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Emptiness.
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Physical emptiness, an absence of matter; vacuum.
Idleness.
An empty or inane remark or thing.
As nouns the difference between acumen and vacuity
is that acumen is quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination while vacuity is emptiness.acumen
English
Noun
(en noun)- No, no, my dear Watson! With all respect for your natural acumen , I do not think that you are quite a match for the worthy doctor.
- Hannibal Lecter: Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling? Enthrall me with your acumen .
Synonyms
* sharpness, penetration, keenness, shrewdness, acuteness, acuity, wit, foxiness, intelligence, canninessvacuity
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(vacuities)- The meanes I use to suppresse this frenzy, and which seemeth the fittest for my purpose, is to crush, and trample this humane pride and fiercenesse under foot, to make them feele the emptinesse, vacuitie , and no worth of man.
- to find so sensible a breach or vacuity in the course of the passions, by means of this breach in the connexion of ideas.