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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Acuteness" Quotes from Famous Books

... sanity of Hamilton's mind was a curious warp of obstinacy, born of implacability and developed far beyond the normal bounds of determination. When this almost perverted faculty was in possession of the brain, Hamilton would pursue his object, did every guardian in his genius, from foresight to acuteness, rise in warning. His present policy if a failure might be the death of the Federalist party, but the flashing presentiment of that historic disaster did not ...

— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton

... astonished at this change of deportment, from the sensitive acuteness of agony which attended the beginning of his narrative, that he stepped back two paces, and gazing on the Constable with wonder, mixed with admiration, exclaimed, "We have heard of martyrs in. Palestine, ...

— The Betrothed • Sir Walter Scott

... of Protestantism against Rome and Roman innovations. While a student at Oxford, he had been won over to the Roman Catholic Church by John Perse, a famous Jesuit; and he went at once to pursue his studies in the Jesuit college at Douay. He was so notable for his acuteness and industry, that every effort was made to bring him back. Archbishop Laud, his god-father, was able to convince him of his errors, and in two months he returned to England. A short time after this he left the Roman Catholics, and became tenfold ...

— English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction • Henry Coppee

... was, to them, an enormous sum; but the risk was great. It was not that they feared that any suspicion would fall upon them, on their return. They had often smuggled tobacco from Gibraltar, and had no high opinion of the acuteness of the authorities. What really alarmed them was the fear of being sunk, either by the Spanish or British guns. However, they saw that, for the present at any rate, they had no option but to obey the orders ...

— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty

... principles of war have evolved from centuries of observation on how men react in the mass. It could not be otherwise than that any officer's growth in knowledge of when and how these principles apply to varying situations, strategical and tactical, come primarily of the acuteness of his powers of observation of individual men, and of men working together in groups, and responding to their leadership, under widely different conditions of ...

— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense

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