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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin