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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

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

Those confidentiality interests the executive seeks to shield from disclosure must be weighed against the acuteness of congressional need.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2019

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

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2019

As soon as this was touched upon in any way she was capable of great acuteness.

From "1984" by George Orwell