Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: acuteness
IPA transcription: [əkj'utnəs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: acuteness
    Meaning: the quality of having a sharp edge or point
  • Synonyms: acuteness, acuity, sharpness, keenness
    Meaning: a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind"
  • Synonyms: acuteness
    Meaning: a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed; "dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell"
Usage examples
  • A servant of any acuteness would have formed strange conjectures from such an injunction; but this poor girl was of perfect simplicity; so great, indeed, was her simplicity, that, had not Amelia been void of all suspicion of her husband, the maid would have soon after betrayed her master.