different between perspicuously vs perspicacious

English

Etymology

perspicuous +? -ly

Adverb

perspicuously (comparative more perspicuously, superlative most perspicuously)

1. With clarity and lucidity.
   • 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing

     Even the derangement of the phrases from their (so-called) natural order is luminous for the mind; and it is by the means of such designed reversal that the elements of a judgment may be most pertinently marshalled, or the stages of a complicated action most perspicuously bound into one.

Related terms

• perspicuity
• perspicuous
• perspicuousness
• perspicacious
• perspicaciously
• perspicacity
• perspective

English

Etymology

First attested 1548, from Late Latin perspic?cit?s (“discernment”), from Latin perspicax (“sharp-sighted”), from perspici? (“look through”), from per- (“through”) + speci? (“look at”). See also perspective.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??.sp??ke?.??s/
• (US) enPR: pûr'sp?·k?'sh?s, IPA^(key): /?p???.sp??ke?.??s/
• Rhymes: -e???s
• Hyphenation: per?spi?ca?cious

Adjective

perspicacious (comparative more perspicacious, superlative most perspicacious)

1. (figuratively) Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
2. (obsolete) Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.

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See also

• clairvoyant
• conspicuous
• perspective