Usually means: Sharpness or severity of perception.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. acuteness: Merriam-Webster
  2. acuteness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. acuteness: Vocabulary.com
  4. acuteness: Wordnik
  5. acuteness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. acuteness: Wiktionary
  7. Acuteness, acuteness: Dictionary.com
  8. Acuteness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. acuteness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. acuteness: Rhymezone
  11. Acuteness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. acuteness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. acuteness: FreeDictionary.org
  14. acuteness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. acuteness: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. acuteness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acuteness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acuteness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. acuteness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. acuteness: Medical dictionary

(Note: See acute as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (acuteness)

noun:  The quality of being acute or pointed
noun:  (of the senses or feelings) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness
noun:  Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
noun:  (medicine) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
noun:  Shrewdness, quickness of mind

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