acuteness
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acuteness
noun 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.
- Of sounds: shrillness; high pitch.
- 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.
- Shrewdness, quickness of mind.
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Talk about this word "acuteness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/acuteness. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. acuteness. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/acuteness "acuteness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/acuteness.
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@misc{acuteness_2026,
title = {acuteness},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/acuteness},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
