Keenness
['kiːnnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being keen.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ardor, vehemence, eagerness, earnestness, fervor.[2]. Sharpness, acuteness.[3]. Severity, rigor, sternness.[4]. Poignancy, causticity, acrimony, asperity, bitterness.[5]. Shrewdness, sagacity, astuteness.
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Examples
- Her presence filled him with keenness and excitement, he gravitated cunningly towards her, as if she had some unseen force of attraction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They are used chiefly in the sport of coursing, a work for which their peculiar shape, strength, keenness of sight and speed make them exceedingly well fitted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With the healthy shame of a child, she blamed herself for her keenness of sight, in perceiving that all was not as it should be there. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- This struck her as a clumsy evasion, and the thought gave a flash of keenness to her answer. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It might have been keenness, but it looked remarkably like misery. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Often this keenness for new ideas led him into trouble with his employers; occasionally it was of real service. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Oh the first manifestation of the unusual phenomena in November, 1875, Edison's keenness of perception led him at once to believe that he had discovered a new force. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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