# acuteness

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The quality of being acute or pointed.
2. Of the senses or feelings: the faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness.
3. Of sounds: shrillness; high pitch.
4. Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
5. Shrewdness, quickness of mind.

## Etymology
From acute + -ness.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/acuteness