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Acuteness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being acute or pointed. uncountable, usually

    "the acuteness of an angle"

  2. 2
    the quality of having a sharp edge or point wordnet
  3. 3
    Of the senses or feelings: the faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness. uncountable, usually

    "By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions."

  4. 4
    a quick and penetrating intelligence wordnet
  5. 5
    Of sounds: shrillness; high pitch. uncountable, usually
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  1. 6
    a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed wordnet
  2. 7
    Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. uncountable, usually

    "At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste, and merely wondered at the acuteness of the symptoms; but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man, and to turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred."

  3. 8
    Shrewdness, quickness of mind. uncountable, usually

Etymology

From acute + -ness.

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