QUICKNESS

quickness. Quickness, n. speed, briskness, readiness, pungency

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Quick″ness, n. 1. 1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.
Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. 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. 3. Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience to an animal that must lie still ? Locke 4. 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.