Associations to the word «Keenness»

Wiktionary

KEENNESS, noun. Sharpness or cutting ability
KEENNESS, noun. Astuteness or sagacity
KEENNESS, noun. Eagerness or enthusiasm

Dictionary definition

KEENNESS, noun. A quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind".
KEENNESS, noun. A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something.
KEENNESS, noun. Thinness of edge or fineness of point.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates