acuteness
Meaning
- (uncountable, usually) The quality of being acute or pointed
- (uncountable, usually) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness
- (uncountable, usually) Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
- (uncountable, usually) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
- (uncountable, usually) Shrewdness, quickness of mind
Synonyms
critical observation
penetration of sight
subtility
Translations
Etymology
From acute + -ness.
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