Quickness
Quick·ness
Quickness
n.
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The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. [Obs.]
Touch it with thy celestial quickness.
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Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.
This deed . . . must send thee hence With fiery quickness.
His mind had, indeed, great quickness and vigor.
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Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience to an animal that must lie still ?
- Sharpness; pungency of taste.