释义 |
piercingness|ˈpɪəsɪŋnɪs| [See -ness.] Piercing quality; penetrativeness, keenness.
1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 254 The edge, and piercingnesse of her judgment. a1697Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 220 His eie..had a strange piercingness. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. v. i. 303 The prodigious Quickness and Piercingness of its Thought. 1888B. W. Richardson Son of Star III. xiii. 231 A voice..deadly in its piercingness. |