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Acuteness
ACU'TENESS, n.
1. Sharpness; but seldom used in this literal sense, as applied to material things.
2. Figuratively, the faculty of nice discernment or perception; applied to the senses, or the understanding. By an acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions; by an acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.
3. Sharpness, or elevation of sound, in rhetoric or music.
4. Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
acuteness appears in definitions for these words:
Acuteness Arguteness Blood-hound Brightness Clear-sighted Discernment Flatness Highness Ingenuity Interval Keenness Penetration Perspicaciousness Perspicacity Perspicacy Poignancy Quickness Sagaciousness Sagacity Sense Sensibility Sensibleness Sharpness Shrillness Subtilization Subtilness Subtilty Thickness Thunder Unison Unisonant Vibration
Acuteness Arguteness Blood-hound Brightness Clear-sighted Discernment Flatness Highness Ingenuity Interval Keenness Penetration Perspicaciousness Perspicacity Perspicacy Poignancy Quickness Sagaciousness Sagacity Sense Sensibility Sensibleness Sharpness Shrillness Subtilization Subtilness Subtilty Thickness Thunder Unison Unisonant Vibration
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