Acuteness

Definitions

1. The quality of being acute or pointed.
   uncountable, usually
2. Of the senses or feelings: the faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness.
   uncountable, usually
3. Of sounds: shrillness; high pitch.
   uncountable, usually
4. Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
   uncountable, usually
5. Shrewdness, quickness of mind.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“the acuteness of an angle”

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

“By acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.”

“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.”

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