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Sharpness   /ʃˈɑrpnəs/   Listen
Sharpness

noun
1.
A quick and penetrating intelligence.  Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, keenness.  "I admired the keenness of his mind"
2.
The attribute of urgency in tone of voice.  Synonym: edge.
3.
A strong odor or taste property.  Synonyms: bite, pungency, raciness.  "The sulfurous bite of garlic" , "The sharpness of strange spices" , "The raciness of the wine"
4.
The quality of being keenly and painfully felt.
5.
Thinness of edge or fineness of point.  Synonym: keenness.
6.
The quality of being sharp and clear.  Synonym: distinctness.
7.
Harshness of manner.  Synonym: asperity.





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"Sharpness" Quotes from Famous Books



... his hand, and Val mechanically shook it. The retreating steps of Mr. Carr, following in the wake of Dr. Ashton, were heard, as Lord Hartledon spoke again to the clergyman with irritable sharpness: ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... writing, she observed smilingly, as she addressed herself to all the young ladies: "I have all along lacked the quality of sharpness and never besides been good at verses; as you, sisters, and all of you have ever been aware; but, on a night like this I've been fain to do my best, with the object of escaping censure, and of not reflecting injustice on this scenery and nothing more. ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... made of comparisons taken from the pleasures of the senses when these are mingled with that which borders on pain, to prove that there is something of like nature in intellectual pleasures. A little acid, sharpness or bitterness is often more pleasing than sugar; shadows enhance colours; and even a dissonance in the right place gives relief to harmony. We wish to be terrified by rope-dancers on the point of falling and we wish that tragedies ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz
... There was a sharpness of rebuke in this which Godfrey Holmes could not at the moment overcome. Nevertheless he knew the girl, and understood the workings of her heart and mind. Now, in her present state, she could be ...
— The Mistletoe Bough • Anthony Trollope
... principle of natural religion, was inevitably contained in the legal conception of a natural law, for how can we dissociate the idea of law from the idea of a definite lawgiver? The very scholastic disputations themselves, by the sharpness and subtlety which they gave to the reasoning faculty, set men in search of novelties, and these novelties were not always of a kind which orthodox views of the Christian mysteries could have sanctioned. ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley


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