QUICKNESSES

Noun

quicknesses

plural of quickness

Source: Wiktionary


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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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