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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
quickness
n 1: skillful performance without difficulty; "his quick
adeptness was a product of good design" [syn: {adeptness},
{adroitness}, {deftness}, {facility}]
2: intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct
responses without delay [syn: {mental quickness}, {quick-wittedness}]
3: a rate that is rapid [syn: {celerity}, {rapidity}]
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