Crossword clues for acuteness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acuteness \A*cute"ness\, n.
The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
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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 nice distinctions.
Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close.
--Sir W. Scott. Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.
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(Med.) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
Syn: Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being acute or pointed; as, the acuteness of an angle. 2 The faculty of nice discernment or perception; 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 nice distinctions. 3 shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds. 4 Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. 5 Shrewdness, quickness of mind
WordNet
n. a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind" [syn: acuity, sharpness, keenness]
the quality of having a sharp edge or point [ant: obtuseness]
Usage examples of "acuteness".
Deaf people have always been remarkable for their acuteness of vision, touch, and smell.
Niebuhr, the Danish historian, was remarkable for his acuteness of memory.
The swelling and redness are generally in proportion to the acuteness of the attack.
The cuts and bruises I had received from the jagged sides of the rock shaft were paining me woefully, their soreness enhanced to a stinging or burning acuteness by some pungent quality in the faint draft, and the mere act of rolling over was enough to set my whole frame throbbing with untold agony.
I should rather say--of the intensest acuteness, and-- and of the acutest intensity.
The depths of my evil passion were again sounded and aroused, and I resolved yet to humble the pride and conquer the coldness which galled to the very quick the morbid acuteness of my self-love.
We had travelled the passage and crossed the kitchen with the grace of ballet dancers, silent, swift and faultless in our movements, united in the acuteness of our conspiracy.
Phineas was tall and lathy, red-haired, with an expression of great acuteness and shrewdness in his face.
His exquisite politeness was then described, and the ultra acuteness and nervosity which resulted in that power of divination which he possessed.
With the acuteness of her years, however, Maisie saw that her own avidity would triumph, and she held out the picture to Miss Overmore as if she were quite proud of her mother.
She granted me this privilege, and looking at me with a face full of pleasure, she allowed me to press her naked body to my breast, not seeing, or pretending not to see, the acuteness of my enjoyment.
Confident of being warned at need by his hearing, which was normally supersensitive and, when he was engaged as now, keyed to preterhuman acuteness, he went coolly about the business, and at his first step found a portable reading-lamp on a long cord and coolly switched on its hooded light.
Besides, even the humblest agent of police would be expected to possess a degree of acuteness for which no one gave M.
I admired the natural acuteness of young girls, who take their degrees in the art of love with so much ease and at such an early age.
I thought I was dreaming when I heard a young woman in her position reasoning with more acuteness than Minerva displays in her colloquies with Telemachus.