acuteness
noun 5
Definitions
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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