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• n  a quick and penetrating intelligence
  I admired the keenness of his mind
• n  a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
• n  thinness of edge or fineness of point

• She approaches her characters with curiosity and determination, with an anatomist's keenness to discover what makes them tick rather than a narcissist's desire to refashion them .
• Keith Moon, their great drummer, had taken some of the band's careening keenness with him when he died in 1978.
• Today when I think of it, even now as I write of it, the keenness of our loss comes back to me as fresh and as terrible as it was in that long dark day soon after Christmas .

• acuteness
• acuity
• sharpness
• eagerness
• avidity
• avidness

• dullness

News & Articles

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• Israel and U.S. conduct joint missile test
  As Obama seeks Congressional support, test strikes show keenness to act        
  Sept. 3, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Richard Lambert in Gradplus.com
  Mr Lambert said: "Of course, businesses don't expect graduates to arrive on day one fully trained, but what they do value in graduates are their people skills, a focus on the customer and a keenness to solve problems."
• Walter Smith in guardian.co.uk
  Asked if there was still a role for Adam at Ibrox, Smith said: "Of course there is. He played in the game on Saturday. Unfortunately for us, he was ill. Such was his keenness to play that he didn't mention it. There was a little bit of sickness on...
• Kevin Keegan in Teamtalk.com
  Keegan said: "I had no problems putting David Edgar in. He had a little bit of an iffy start, to be fair, trying to win a couple of balls that Franz Beckenbauer in his prime wouldn't have tried to win. But that's just keenness. After that, the...