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n. The quality of being acute or pointed; as, the acuteness of an angle.

n. The faculty of nice discernment or perception; sensitiveness; – applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.

n. Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.

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

n. Shrewdness, quickness of mind

n. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness.

n. The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.

n. Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.

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

n. The quality of being acute.

n. The faculty of nice discernment or perception; quickness or keenness of the senses or understanding.

n. In rhetoric or music, sharpness or elevation of sound.

n. In pathology, violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

n. In musical acoustics. relative elevation of pitch in a sound or tone, produced by greater frequency of vibration: opposed to gravity. The higher the pitch, the greater is the acuteness.

n. a quick and penetrating intelligence

n. the quality of having a sharp edge or point

n. a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed

"I may have been ever so much an exception in acuteness of observation, powers of comparison, and abnormal self-consciousness; none the less were my thoughts and conduct typical of the attitude of the intelligent immigrant child toward American institutions."

keenness    sharpness    sensibility    sensitivity    sensitiveness   

keenness    sharp-wittedness    shrewdness    penetration    sagacity    subtlety    ingenuity    sharpness    acumen    sensitiveness   

astuteness    cuteness