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acuteness
  1. The quality of being acute or pointed
  2. (of the senses or feelings) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness
  3. Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
  4. (medicine) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
  5. Shrewdness, quickness of mind
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The acuteness of its senses, together with the quickness with which it perceives danger, have undoubtedly aided it in holding its own wherever it has gained a foothold in a suitable locality.”
      “The natural quickness of her capacity, and the early acuteness of her mind, now began to manifest themselves.”
      “Louisa spoke, with sudden acuteness, like an acid under the honey of her voice.”
acute
  1. (orthography) An acute accent.
  2. A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
acuity
  1. Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Nothing is more important to the development of acuity in visual thought than drawing.”
      “Students were chosen on the basis of interest, intellectual acuity, career field, and career patterns.”
      “Quigley depicts the changing relationship between the two women superbly, their initial wariness ringing with psychological acuity.”
acutenesses
acuities
  1. plural of acuity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Mr. Scott worked a narrow vein and his main strengths, like those of Agnes Martin, were his acuities of touch, interval and scale.”
      “This report must include corrected visual acuities, color vision and visual fields results.”
      “Visual acuities should be measured and the optic discs examined.”
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