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Keenness Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Keenness has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a quick and penetrating intelligence

"he argued with great acuteness"

"I admired the keenness of his mind"

2

a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

3

thinness of edge or fineness of point

4

sharpness or cutting ability

Related Terms
Antonyms
bluntness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
intelligence enthusiasm shape
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
steel trap ardor acuteness
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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