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Acuteness vs Memory - What's the difference?

acuteness | memory |

As nouns the difference between acuteness and memory

is that acuteness is the quality of being acute or pointed; as, the acuteness of an angle while memory is the ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.

acuteness

English

Noun

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  • 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

    memory

    English

    Alternative forms

    * memorie (archaic)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.
  • Memory is a facility common to all animals.
  • * (rfdate) Albert Schweitzer
  • Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory .
  • A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
  • I have no memory of that event.
  • (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
  • This data passes from the CPU to the memory .
  • The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
  • in recent memory'''''; ''in living '''memory
  • (attributive, of a material) which returns to its original
  • (obsolete) A memorial.
  • * Shakespeare
  • These weeds are memories of those worser hours.

    Synonyms

    * (ability to recall) recall * (stored record) recall, recollection * (RAM or ROM) core (old-fashioned )

    Derived terms

    * declarative memory * eidetic memory * false memory * flashbulb memory * folk memory * institutional memory * living memory * memory bank * memory card * memory foam * memory lane * photographic memory * recent memory * semantic memory * sensory memory * trip down memory lane

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * remember * mnemonics

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