acuteness vs severity

acuteness

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

  • The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness 

  • Shrewdness, quickness of mind 

  • The quality of being acute or pointed 

  • Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds. 

severity

noun
  • The state of being severe. 

  • The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness. 

How often have the words acuteness and severity occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )