acuteness
English
noun
Definitions
- The quality of being acute or pointed
- (of the senses or feelings) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness
- Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
- (medicine) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
- Shrewdness, quickness of mind
Etymology
Suffix from English acute.
Origin
English
acute
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acutance English
- acute English
- acute flaccid myelitis English
- acute-angled English
- acutely English
- gravo-acute accent English
- hyperacute English
- nonacute English
- postacute English
- preacute English
- subacute English
- superacute English
- unacute English
- aigu French
- acūte Middle English
- akuta Ido