Category:Quickness

Quick"ness, n.

1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. [obs.] Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert.

2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; Celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed. . . must send thee hence with fiery quickness. Shak. His mind had, indeed, great quickness and vigor. Macaulay.

3. Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility. Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience to an animal That must lie still locke

4. Sharpness; pungency of taste. Mortimer.

Syn. -- velocity; celerity; rapidity; speed; haste; expedition; Promptness; dispatch; swiftness; nimbleness; fleetness; agility; Briskness; liveliness; readiness; sagacity; shrewdness; shrewdness; Sharpness; keenness.