acuteness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being acute or pointed. uncountable,usually
    — the acuteness of an angle
  2. Of the senses or feelings: the faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness. uncountable,usually
    — By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions.
  3. Of sounds: shrillness; high pitch. uncountable,usually
  4. Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. uncountable,usually
    — At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste, and merely wondered at the acuteness of the symptoms; but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man, and to turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred.
  5. Shrewdness, quickness of mind. uncountable,usually

词形变化

acutenesses plural

词汇关系

近义词
acuity sharpness acumen keenness
相关词
acutance

词源

Etymology tree
English acute
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English acuteness
From acute + -ness.
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