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What does acuteness mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of being acute or pointed
  2. (of the senses or feelings) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness
  3. Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
  4. (medicine) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
  5. Shrewdness, quickness of mind
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The speech was made and answered with an acuteness which we were not prepared for.
This question applies with particular acuteness to the situation of hermits or solitaries.
But is it true what people say about the acuteness of senses of smell and taste being linked?
People with Asperger syndrome often possess an unusual acuteness of thought and therefore often develop a specialised interest.
In my riding and in my region, I do not feel with the same acuteness any anti-Arab of anti-Muslim movement.
Mr PIMOR notes that the issue arises with the same acuteness on other borders and at transnational level.

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