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Keenness vs Acerbity - What's the difference?

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Keenness is a related term of acerbity.


As nouns the difference between keenness and acerbity

is that keenness is sharpness or cutting ability while acerbity is sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

keenness

English

Noun

(-)
  • sharpness or cutting ability
  • astuteness or sagacity
  • eagerness or enthusiasm

    • acerbity

    English

    Noun

    (acerbities)
  • Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
  • Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.
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    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“Well ?” I repeated with some acerbity . I had been wondering for the last ten minutes how many more knots he would manage to make in that same bit of string before he actually started undoing them again.}}

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