Crossword-Solution: ACUTENESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Acuteness | n. | The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle. |
| Acuteness | n. | The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. |
| Acuteness | n. | Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds. |
| Acuteness | n. | Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ACUTENESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ADVANCING IN SEVERITY | 9 answers |
| Acuity | 19 answers |
| Perspicacity | 43 answers |
| Sharpness | 54 answers |
| susceptibility | 60 answers |
| Acumen | 62 answers |
| Edge | 67 answers |
| good sense | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ACUTENESS (5)
But now the idea came strongly into Hester’s mind, that Pearl, with her remarkable precocity and acuteness, might already have approached the age when she could have been made a friend, and intrusted with as much of her mother’s sorrows as could be imparted, without irreverence either to the parent or the child.
The ordinary sapper is a great deal better educated than the common soldier, and they discussed the peculiar conditions of the possible fight with some acuteness.
And so true is this of the present subject that, though I have often explained some of my opinions to persons of much acuteness, who, whilst I was speaking, appeared to understand them very distinctly, yet, when they repeated them, I have observed that they almost always changed them to such an extent that I could no longer acknowledge them as mine.
This school of Socialism dissected with great acuteness the contradictions in the conditions of modern production.
From early infancy his survival had depended upon acuteness of eyesight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste far more than upon the more slowly developed organ of reason.
Quotes with ACUTENESS (3)
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?
She remained in this attitude, clearly inviting him to touch her. Taking a position of advantage, he rested his right hand on her buttock. He considered a moment then raised his arm and brought his palm upon her, delivering a sharp spank. He felt the acuteness of it on his own skin. He gave her another, watching his hand in the mirror opposite, as it made contact. The slap caused her to flinch, but her heard her sigh also: the timbre of which was now familiar to him. He pause…
The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must mean, public non-profit initiative, even if only in redistributing private accumulation. Public decisions aimed at collective social improvement from which all human lives should gain. That is the basis of progressive policy — no…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1969).