agudeza

f.

1 keenness.

2 sharpness, shrewdness (mental).

3 sharpness.

4 witticism (dicho ingenioso).

5 witty remark, sharp remark, witty stroke, bon mot.

6 shrillness.

7 acuity, sharpness of the senses.

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agudeza

► nombre femenino

1 sharpness, keenness (dolor) acuteness

2 figurado (viveza) wit, wittiness

3 figurado (ingenio) witticism, witty saying

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noun f.

1) sharpness, acuteness

2) wit, wittiness

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SF

1) [de los sentidos, de la mente] acuteness, sharpness

con una enorme agudeza visual — with very keen o sharp vision

2) (=ingenio) wit, wittiness

3) (=comentario, golpe) witticism

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femenino

1)

a) (de voz, sonido) high pitch

b) (de dolor - duradero) intensity; (- momentáneo) sharpness

2) (perspicacia) sharpness; (de sentido, instinto) keenness, sharpness

3) (comentario ingenioso) witty comment

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= acumen, insight, penetration, acuity, witticism, quip.

Ex. Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

Ex. The greatest living theoretician of descriptive cataloging, Professor Seymour Lubetzky, graced our library with his brilliance, insight, and fierce dedication to the integrity of the catalog.

Ex. Even writing that we reject for its shallowness, its lack of penetration, demands in the very act of rejection that we match what we know of life, and of other literature, against what this writer offers = Incluso las lecturas que rechazamos por su superficialidad, por su falta de agudeza, requieren en el acto mismo del rechazo que comparemos lo que conocemos de la vida, y de otra literatura, con lo que nos ofrece su autor.

Ex. Results indicate that UK chief librarians consider acuity of political knowledge to be crucial to management.

Ex. It uses humor rather than witticisms, and self-deprecation rather than deprecation of the professional field.

Ex. His genius is sometimes most evident in his quips.

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* agudeza intelectual = intellectual acuity.

* agudeza visual = visual acuity.

* con agudeza = perceptively, subtly.

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femenino

1)

a) (de voz, sonido) high pitch

b) (de dolor - duradero) intensity; (- momentáneo) sharpness

2) (perspicacia) sharpness; (de sentido, instinto) keenness, sharpness

3) (comentario ingenioso) witty comment

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= acumen, insight, penetration, acuity, witticism, quip.

Ex: Payment is very important and can be a problem so the businessman needs to be streetwise and shrewd with a good business acumen.

Ex: The greatest living theoretician of descriptive cataloging, Professor Seymour Lubetzky, graced our library with his brilliance, insight, and fierce dedication to the integrity of the catalog.

Ex: Even writing that we reject for its shallowness, its lack of penetration, demands in the very act of rejection that we match what we know of life, and of other literature, against what this writer offers = Incluso las lecturas que rechazamos por su superficialidad, por su falta de agudeza, requieren en el acto mismo del rechazo que comparemos lo que conocemos de la vida, y de otra literatura, con lo que nos ofrece su autor.

Ex: Results indicate that UK chief librarians consider acuity of political knowledge to be crucial to management.

Ex: It uses humor rather than witticisms, and self-deprecation rather than deprecation of the professional field.

Ex: His genius is sometimes most evident in his quips.

* agudeza intelectual = intellectual acuity.

* agudeza visual = visual acuity.

* con agudeza = perceptively, subtly.

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agudeza

feminine

A

1 (de una voz, un sonido) high pitch; (irritante) shrillness

2 (de un dolor — duradero) intensity; (— momentáneo) sharpness

B

1 (perspicacia) sharpness

2 (de la vista) keenness, sharpness; (del oído) keenness, sharpness, acuteness; (de un sentido, instinto) keenness, sharpness

C (comentario ingenioso) witticism, witty comment

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agudeza sustantivo femenino
1

a) (de voz, sonido) high pitch

b) (de dolor — duradero) intensity;

(— momentáneo) sharpness
2 (perspicacia) sharpness;
(de sentido, instinto) keenness, sharpness
3 (comentario ingenioso) witty comment
agudeza sustantivo femenino
1 sharpness
2 (intensidad de un dolor) acuteness
3 fig (comentario ingenioso) witticism, witty saying
'agudeza' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
roma
- romo
- salida
- viveza
- ingenio
- ingenioso
English:
intellect
- one-liner
- wit
- wittiness
- witticism

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agudeza nf

1. [de vista, olfato] keenness;

agudeza visual keen-sightedness, sharp-sightedness

2. [mental] sharpness, shrewdness;

respondió con agudeza she replied shrewdly

3. [dicho ingenioso] witticism

4. [de filo, punta] sharpness

5. [de sonido] high pitch

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agudeza

f

1 de voz, sonido high pitch

2 MED intensity

3 (perspicacia) sharpness

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agudeza nf

1) : keenness, sharpness

2) : shrillness

3) : witticism