Acuteness vs Shrewdness - What's the difference?
acuteness | shrewdness |
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
The quality of being shrewd.
An invented collective name for a group of apes.