visual acuity

1. 1.

   sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)

   Synonymsacuitysharp-sightedness

   Broadersight

   Narrowertwenty-twentyoxyopia

Questions about visual acuity

What does visual acuity mean?

visual acuity means "sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)".

What is another word for visual acuity?

Close synonyms include acuity, sharp-sightedness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is visual acuity a common word?

visual acuity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.