SHARPNESSES Synonyms

• sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)

• a quick and penetrating intelligence

• a sharp bitterness

• a sharp sour taste

• a rough and bitter manner

• a tapering point

• shrewdness shown by keen insight

• intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

• the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white

• intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

• the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light

• a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted

• the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

• unusual mental ability

• the power of creative imagination

• intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

• the property of being ingenious

• a pleasing firmness and freshness

• an expressive style that is direct and to the point

• firm but easily broken

• feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

• the quality of being very good indeed

• the property of being very narrow or thin

• having a very fine texture

• the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance

• keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect

• the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)

• high level or degree; the property of being intense

• the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)

• chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

• a feeling of understanding

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• perception of that which is obscure

• the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding

• a tart spicy quality

• the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting

• the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip

• the quality of being obviously directed at a particular person or thing

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

• used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

• something hard to endure

• extreme plainness

• excessive sternness

• intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

• a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed

• a quick and penetrating intelligence

• the quality of having a sharp edge or point