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sharp-sightedness

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sharp-sight·ed (shärpstd)
adj.
1. Having keen eyesight.
2. Keenly perceptive or alert.

sharp-sighted·ly adv.
sharp-sighted·ness n.
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Noun1.sharp-sightednesssharp-sightedness - sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)
visual modality, visual sense, vision, sight - the ability to see; the visual faculty
20/20, twenty-twenty - normal visual acuity, as measured by the ability to read charts at a distance of 20 feet
oxyopia - unusually acute vision
2.sharp-sightedness - lively attentiveness
attentiveness - the trait of being observant and paying attention


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Foreigners, as well as the citizens of America, could then reasonably repose confidence in its engagements; but to depend upon a government that must itself depend upon thirteen other governments for the means of fulfilling its contracts, when once its situation is clearly understood, would require a degree of credulity not often to be met with in the pecuniary transactions of mankind, and little reconcilable with the usual sharp-sightedness of avarice.
Mrs Nickleby was commonly in the habit of giving herself credit for a pretty tolerable share of penetration and acuteness, but she had never felt so satisfied with her own sharp-sightedness as she did that day.
 
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