acuteness

1. 1.

   a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed

   “dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell”

   Broadersensitivity
2. 2.

   a quick and penetrating intelligence

   “he argued with great acuteness”

   “I admired the keenness of his mind”

   Synonymsacuitysharpnesskeenness

   Broaderintelligence

   Narrowersteel trap
3. 3.

   the quality of having a sharp edge or point

   Antonymsobtuseness

   Broadersharpness

Other forms of acuteness

plural

acutenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acuteness

What does acuteness mean?

acuteness means "a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in acuteness?

acuteness has 3 syllables: acu-te-ness. The stress falls on "te". In IPA it is /əˈkjutnəs/.

What is another word for acuteness?

Close synonyms include acuity, sharpness, keenness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of acuteness?

The recorded antonyms are obtuseness.

Is acuteness a common word?

acuteness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with acuteness?

1 word rhymes with acuteness. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.