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acuteness

[uh-kyoot-nis] / əˈkjut nɪs /
NOUN
intensity
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A bout of weepy swooning, marveling at the acuteness of an aspartame-induced diet soda headache, was a bracing warning that even joy could be distractingly paralyzing.

From Washington Post Mar. 11, 2022

And the acuteness of that challenge has occurred at the same time as the rise of Q-stagram.

From Slate Sep. 18, 2020

But the sense of a world in which everyone is terminally rootless comes across with haunting acuteness.

From New York Times Feb. 11, 2019

And I think that the acuteness of that anger is embodied in that emotional response to the news cycle is present, definitely present in some way in the pilot.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2018

She looked at trie with a kind of fresh acuteness.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger




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