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.
