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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)