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Webster 1913 Edition


Quickness

Quick′ness

,
Noun.
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
.
Shakespeare
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Quickness

QUICK'NESS

, n.
1.
Speed; velocity; celerity; rapidity; as the quickness of motion.
2.
Activity; briskness; promptness, as the quickness of the imagination or wit.
3.
Acuteness of perception; keep sensibility; as quickness of sensation.
4.
Sharpness; pungency.

Definition 2024


quickness

quickness

English

Noun

quickness (countable and uncountable, plural quicknesses)

  1. rapidity of movement or activity; agility or dexterity
    The quickness of the hand deceives the eye.

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