English Explanatory Dictionary

acuteness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

acuteness acutenesses

Etymology

From acute + -ness.

Synonyms

acuity sharpness acumen keenness

Related words

acutance
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