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English Dictionary: quickness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for quickness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quickness n skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer" Synonym(s): adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay Synonym(s): mental quickness, quickness, quick-wittedness a rate that is rapid Synonym(s): celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness
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.