acuteness vs perception

acuteness

noun
  • The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness 

  • Shrewdness, quickness of mind 

  • Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. 

  • The quality of being acute or pointed 

  • Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds. 

perception

noun
  • Conscious understanding of something. 

  • That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc. 

  • Vision (ability) 

  • The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information. 

  • Acuity 

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