noun. In musical acoustics. relative elevation of pitch in a sound or tone, produced by greater frequency of vibration: opposed to gravity. The higher the pitch, the greater is the acuteness.

noun. The quality of being acute.

noun. The faculty of nice discernment or perception; quickness or keenness of the senses or understanding.

noun. In rhetoric or music, sharpness or elevation of sound.

noun. In pathology, violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

noun. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness.

noun. 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.

noun. Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.

noun. Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

noun. The quality of being acute or pointed; as, the acuteness of an angle.

noun. 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.

noun. Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.

noun. Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

noun. Shrewdness, quickness of mind

noun. a quick and penetrating intelligence

noun. the quality of having a sharp edge or point

noun. a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed

"I may have been ever so much an exception in acuteness of observation, powers of comparison, and abnormal self-consciousness; none the less were my thoughts and conduct typical of the attitude of the intelligent immigrant child toward American institutions."

keenness  sensibility  sensitiveness  sensitivity  sharpness  

astuteness  cuteness  

acumen  ingenuity  keenness  penetration  sagacity