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noun

Quickness n.

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. (Obs.) "Touch it with thy celestial quickness."

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."

Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility. "Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience to an animal that must lie still?"

Sharpness; pungency of taste.

Synonyms: Velocity; celerity; rapidity; speed; haste; expedition; promptness; dispatch; swiftness; nimbleness; fleetness; agility; briskness; liveliness; readiness; sagacity; shrewdness; shrewdness; sharpness; keenness.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Quickness" Quotes from Famous Books

... fat arms, and free necks. Madame Goesler's eyes sparkled as other eyes did not sparkle, and there was something of the vagueness of mystery in the very blackness and gloss and abundance of her hair,—as though her beauty was the beauty of some world which he had not yet known. And there was a quickness and yet a grace of motion about her which was quite new to him. The ladies upon whom the Duke had of late most often smiled had been somewhat slow,—perhaps almost heavy,—though, no doubt, graceful withal. In his early ...

— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope

... and at Bridge's command of, "Hands up!" Billy, lightning-like in his quickness, drew and fired. The bullet raked Bridge's hat from his head but left ...

— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... to facilitate hereafter the negotiations begun with England to form an alliance. As for Mr. Gouv. Morris he is entirely devoted to his correspondent, with whom he has been constantly connected in business and opinion. His great talents are recognized, and his extreme quickness in conceiving new schemes and gaining others to them. He is perhaps the most eloquent and ingenious man of his country, but his countrymen themselves distrust his talents. They admire but fear ...

— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... took care it should not reach my ears. During the half hour we passed in this vehicle, Job examined and reexamined me in my "canting catechism," as he termed it. He expressed himself much pleased with the quickness of my parts, and honoured me with an assurance that in less than three months he would engage to make me as complete a ruffler as ever ...

— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... street-boy's quickness. All he had to do was to let go the end of rope he held, and the leg-breaker slipped smoothly back, while the king's runnered chariot shot ahead, drawn by the flying horses on whose ...

— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson

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