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acuteness

[uh-kyoot-nis] / əˈkyut 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

But his book is also very much about the things that kept him alive — Bach’s music, Proust’s fiction, friends and acuteness of all variety.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2020

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

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2020

Over the last few months of dedicated wild swimming in the Pacific and in the San Francisco Bay, I have noted both the otherworldliness and the acuteness of experience that Deakin so vividly depicted.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2020

It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict’s breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens