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Alertness vs Apertness - What's the difference?

alertness | apertness |

As nouns the difference between alertness and apertness

is that alertness is the quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity while apertness is (archaic) openness; frankness.

alertness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

    • apertness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) openness; frankness
    • (Theodore Edward Hook)
  • * Holder
    • The freedom or apertness and vigour of pronouncing, as in the Bocca Romana, and giving somewhat more of aspiration; and the closeness and muffling, and laziness of speaking, render the sound of speech different.
    (Webster 1913)