acuteness

Meaning

  1. (uncountable, usually) The quality of being acute or pointed
  2. (uncountable, usually) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness
  3. (uncountable, usually) Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
  4. (uncountable, usually) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
  5. (uncountable, usually) Shrewdness, quickness of mind

Etymology

From acute + -ness.

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