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noun

Acuteness n.

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

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 fine distinctions. "Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close."

Shrillness; high pitch; said of sounds.

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

Synonyms: Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness.

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Etymology of 'Acuteness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Acuteness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Heliconidae, and along with them species of Leptalis (Pieridae), which had varied in the same way so as still to be exact imitations. But this process of imitation would be subject to check by the increasing acuteness of birds and other animals which, whenever the eatable Leptalis became numerous, would surely find them out, and would then probably attack both these and their friends the Heliconidae in order to devour the former and reject the latter. The Pieridae ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... not see that he really hid it, papa. He shut the note in a book lying openly on the table,—a dictionary, to which any one in the household was likely to go. You think Mr. Taggett a person of great acuteness." ...

— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... forest closed about him again. The beast he was trailing had paused here, had moved roundabout as though seeking the direction he required. Ralph followed the creature's movements, understanding with the acuteness of his ...

— In the Brooding Wild • Ridgwell Cullum

... English; but here was one who held his own with them in speculative discussion, speaking not only with the eloquence of a poet, but with the readiness, clearness, and fluency of a man of letters. His pure English diction astonished them, but his acuteness of reasoning, his intuitive knowledge of men and the world, was altogether beyond their comprehension. All they had got by years of laborious study this man appeared to have as a natural gift. In repartee, even, he could more than hold ...

— Robert Burns - Famous Scots Series • Gabriel Setoun

... idea of the entire plot of the Three Mousquetaires, which is, in fact, less a tale with a regular intrigue and denouement, than a narrative of adventures and incidents, extending over a period of nearly three years. D'Artagnan, whose enterprising character and Gascon acuteness qualify him admirably to take a part in the court intrigues of the time, soon finds himself almost at open war with the Cardinal, and engaged in serving the interests of Louis the Thirteenth's unhappy queen, Anne of Austria, who, by rejecting the suit of the ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

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