acuteness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
acuteness (usually uncountable, plural acutenesses)
- The quality of being acute or pointed
- the acuteness of an angle
- (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
- Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
- (medicine) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
- Shrewdness, quickness of mind
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Translations[edit]
of the senses or feelings: sensitiveness
violence of a disease
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