acuteness

noun 5

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noun

1

The quality of being acute or pointed.

the acuteness of an angle

2

Of the senses or feelings: the faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness.

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

By acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.

3

Of sounds: shrillness; high pitch.

4

Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

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.

5

Shrewdness, quickness of mind.

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