What's the difference between perspicacious and perspicuous?

Perspicacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.
  • (a.) Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Attention to the details of current investigations, efforts to control the risk factors, and the perspicacious use and suitable monitoring of pharmacological agents can be expected to reduce the risks for both the pregnant patient and her attending physicians.
  • (2) The deep grooves of grief in his brow, his sunken, woeful eyes and dry parched lips a perspicacious sculpture carved in anticipation of this slap of indignity.
  • (3) Only one thing is perspicaciously clear, and that is where the hysterical arguments against change put by, among others, the Church of England will lie once this saga has run its course – namely, on the wrong side of history.
  • (4) But a close second is the more meaningful and perspicacious “Blame straight people – they keep having gay babies ”.
  • (5) As Steve Coll wrote perspicaciously in The New Yorker last week , the question of resuming war in Iraq in 2014 is not whether or not a new conflict can be justified – but where it will lead.
  • (6) Les Bright Exeter, Devon • For her perspicacious and comprehensive analysis of all the difficulties Simon Stevens will face as the chief of NHS England, Polly Toynbee should be raised to the peerage.
  • (7) Drawing from a perspicacious review of the literature, the respective advantages of various biopsy technics and their uses (i.e.

Perspicuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.
  • (a.) Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This perspicuous and flexible apparatus is designed for induction as well as maintenance of anaesthesia with or without artificial ventilation.
  • (2) For reasons of perspicuity the items used in the various techniques were grouped in 10 different sections.
  • (3) This vivid model has the advantages of simplicity, perspicuity, and availability at any time, although two persons are necessary.
  • (4) To make the discussion perspicuous it is helpful to assume that the time evolution of the chemical system proceeds by a univariate, bistable one-step process of birth-and-death type.