keenness

n

cogency, penetration, incisiveness, pointedness; mordancy, mordaciousness, trenchancy, pungency, cuttingness, bitingness, stingingness, scorchingness; satiricalness, sardonicism, derisiveness, mockingness, insultingness; harshness, severity, stringency, roughness; unkindness, uncharitableness, maliciousness, malevolence, malignancy, cruelty; virulence, bitterness, acrimony, acrimoniousness, acridness, acidity, acerbity, rancorousness, venomousness.

2. acuteness, sharpness, sensitivity, discernment, discrimination, perception, percipience, perspicacity; consciousness, cognizance, awareness, sentience, sensibility, comprehension, understanding; sympathy, empathy, responsiveness.

3. astuteness, wisdom, sagacity, sapience; intelligence, smartness, Sl. smarts, brightness, Inf. braininess; shrewdness, cleverness, subtlety, canniness, cunning, slyness, wiliness, foxiness, Scot, and North Eng. pawkiness.

4. intentness, earnestness, diligence, assiduousness; enterprise, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, ambition, hustle; energy, vigorousness, vigor, dynamism; animation, liveliness, spiritedness, high-spiritedness, vivacity, vivaciousness, lustiness, activeness; All Inf. snap- piness, snap, zippiness, zip, peppiness, pep, get up and go.

5. eagerness, avidness, ebullience, enthusiasm, readiness, willingness; anxiousness, impatience; ardor, fer-vidity, fervency, zeal, zealousness; passion, passion-ateness, feverishness, heatedness.

6. intensity, extremeness, excruciatingness, heaviness; poignancy; deepness, profundity, indelibleness.