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Acuteness vs Headedness - What's the difference?

acuteness | headedness |

As nouns the difference between acuteness and headedness

is that acuteness is the quality of being acute or pointed; as, the acuteness of an angle while headedness is the state or quality of having a particular type of head.

acuteness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being acute or pointed; as, the acuteness of an angle.
  • The faculty of nice discernment or perception; sensitiveness; – applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.
  • Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
  • Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
  • Shrewdness, quickness of mind

    • Synonyms

    * sharpness, acumen, keenness

    Related terms

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    headedness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of having a particular type of head.
  • * 2005 February, Roumyana Pancheva, "The Rise and Fall of Second-Position Clitics", in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory , Volume 23, Number 1, page 103:
    • An analysis of the historical change that led to the development of second-position clitics in Old Bulgarian is proposed that implicates a switch in the parameter of headedness of TP.