Keenness of an edge or point; as the sharpness of a razor or a dart.

Not obtuseness.

Pungency; acidity; as the sharpness of vinegar.

Pungency of pain; keenness; severity of pain or affliction; as the sharpness of pain, grief or anguish.

Painfulness; afflictiveness; as the sharpness or calamity. And the best quarrels in the heat are curst . By those that feel their sharpness.

Sverity of language; pungency; satirical sarcasm; as the sharpness of a satire or rebuke. Some did all folly with just sharpness blame.

Acuteness of intellect; the power of nice discernment; quickness of understanding; ingenuity; as sharpness of wit or understanding.

Quickness of sense or perception; as the sharpness of sight.

Keenness; sverity as the sharpness of the air or weather./\ .