quickness Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun skillful performance or ability without difficulty
deftness; adeptness; adroitness; facility.
- his quick adeptness was a product of good design
- he was famous for his facility as an archer
noun intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay
quick-wittedness; mental quickness.
noun a rate that is rapid
rapidness; celerity; speediness; rapidity.

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Obs.
Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert.
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.
Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience to an animal that must lie still ? Locke
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.