Crossword-Solution: KEENNESS 8 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Keenness n. The quality or state of being keen.

We have 32 clues for the answer “KEENNESS”

Clue Answers
State of being very sharp. 1 answer
Sharp edge. 1 answer
Observant quality 1 answer
percipience 7 answers
Incisiveness 9 answers
Astuteness 9 answers
Acuity 19 answers
Sagacity 22 answers
assiduity 22 answers
Shrewdness 25 answers
Piquancy 35 answers
Tang 37 answers
Ardor 38 answers
Oomph 42 answers
Perspicacity 43 answers
Effervescence. 45 answers
penetration 47 answers
Gusto 49 answers
vibrancy 53 answers
Sharpness 54 answers
Wit 56 answers
resonance 59 answers
Target 62 answers
Acumen 62 answers
Ambition 65 answers
Relish 66 answers
Longing 67 answers
Edge 67 answers
Verve 73 answers
Zest 75 answers
Eagerness 75 answers
Enthusiasm 92 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with KEENNESS (5)

But, when his nephew, leaning an elbow on the table, covered his eyes thoughtfully and dejectedly with his hand, the fine mask looked at him sideways with a stronger concentration of keenness, closeness, and dislike, than was comportable with its wearer’s assumption of indifference.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
Then, I said, a finer sort of training will be required for our warrior athletes, who are to be like wakeful dogs, and to see and hear with the utmost keenness; amid the many changes of water and also of food, of summer heat and winter cold, which they will have to endure when on a campaign, they must not be liable to break down in health.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
But, barring this drawback, I am bound to own that he has stated no more than the truth in representing me as wounded to the heart by Rachel’s treatment, and as leaving England in the first keenness of suffering caused by the bitterest disappointment of my life.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
She confessed very speedily that to climb the long, low, yellow steps, beneath the huge florid facade, and then to push the ponderous leathern apron of the door, to find one’s self confronted with that builded, luminous sublimity, was a sensation of which the keenness renewed itself with surprising generosity.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
And then, in a moment, “Didn’t you bring me any message from her?” His eyes rested upon Newman’s with a certain soft keenness.
The American Henry James 1994

Quotes with KEENNESS (3)

Active Hope is not wishful thinking. Active Hope is not waiting to be rescued . . . . by some savior. Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world. The web of life is calling us forth at this time. We’ve come a long way and are here to play our part. With Active Hope we realize that there are adventures in store, strengths to discover, and comrades to link arms with. Active Hope is a readiness to discover the strengthsin o…
Joanna Macy
This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he felt an actual joy in the idea that he had, perhaps, a tumor that would prove fatal, that he need not concern himself with anything further, since it was this malady that was going to govern his life, to make a plaything of him, until the not-distant end. If indeed, at his period, it often happened that, though without admitting i…
Marcel Proust Swann's Way
Acquiring of wisdom is a function of inquisitiveness for information and keenness for learning. Plenty of resource and the gravity of flow will ensure a momentum good enough for learning.
Priyavrat Thareja
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).