Synonyms of the word

sharpness

• n. (uncountable) the cutting ability of an edge; keenness.
• n. (uncountable) the fineness of the point a pointed object.
• n. (countable) The product or result of being sharp.
• n. (of food etc) pungency or acidity.
• n. (of an image) distinctness, focus.
• n. (of intelligence) acuteness or acuity.
• n. (obsolete) edge or blade.

acuity

• n. Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.

acuteness

• n. The quality of being acute or pointed.
• n. (of the senses or feelings) The faculty of precise discernment or perception; sensitiveness.
• n. Shrillness; high pitch; – said of sounds.
• n. Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
• n. Shrewdness, quickness of mind.

asperity

• n. Roughness as of stone or weather.
• n. Harshness, as of temper.
• n. Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
• n. (geology) A part of a geological fault line that does not move.

bite

• v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
• v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
• v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
• v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
• v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
• v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
• v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
• v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
• v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• n. The act of biting.
• n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
• n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
• n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
• n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
• n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
• n. A small meal or snack.
• n. (figuratively) aggression.
• n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
• n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

clarity

• n. The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.

clearness

• n. (obsolete) Brightness, brilliancy.
• n. Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.
• n. The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.
• n. The state of being free from obstruction or interference.

configuration

• n. Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing's shape; figure; form factor.
• n. Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions…
• n. The way things are arranged or put together in order to achieve a result.
• n. (physics, chemistry) The arrangement of electrons in an atom, molecule, or other physical structure like…
• n. (algebra) A finite set of points and lines (and sometimes planes), generally with equal numbers of points…

conformation

• n. The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
• n. The state of being conformed; agreement; hence; structure, as depending on the arrangement of parts; form;…
• n. (chemistry) The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a…

contour

• n. An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
• n. A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity:…
• n. (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition…

distinctness

• n. The property or degree of being distinct.

edge

• n. The boundary line of a surface.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
• n. An advantage.
• n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
• n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
• n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
• n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
• n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
• n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
• n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
• v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
• v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
• v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
• v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
• v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
• v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
• v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

intelligence

• n. (uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire…
• n. (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
• n. (uncountable) Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
• n. (countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually…
• n. (dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

keenness

• n. sharpness or cutting ability.
• n. astuteness or sagacity.
• n. eagerness or enthusiasm.

painfulness

• n. The state or quality of being painful, of causing pain.
• n. The state or quality of being tedious, of requiring great care.

pungency

• n. The state of being pungent.
• n. A foul odor.

raciness

• n. The property of being racy.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

spice

• n. (countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
• n. (figuratively, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting,…
• n. (uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
• n. (obsolete) Species; kind.
• v. (transitive) To add spice or spices to.
• n. (nonce word) plural of spouse.

spicery

• n. Spices, in general.
• n. (archaic) A repository of spices.

spiciness

• n. The property of being spicy.

uncloudedness

• n. The quality of not being clouded.

urgency

• n. The quality or condition of being urgent.
• n. insistence, pressure.