Quickness
['kwɪknəs]
Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.
(n.) Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.
(n.) Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
(n.) Sharpness; pungency of taste.
Edited by Jeffrey
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Celerity, expedition, velocity, speed, speediness, fleetness, rapidity, swiftness, despatch.[2]. Activity, briskness, nimbleness, readiness, promptness, promptitude, alertness, agility, smartness.[3]. Dexterity, adroitness, expertness, dexterousness, aptness, aptitude, facility, knack.[4]. Sharpness, penetration, keenness, acuteness, sagacity, shrewdness.
Editor: Rhoda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Liveliness, velocity, speed, swiftness, celerity, fleetness, haste
ANT:Slowness, tardiness, dilatoriness
Typed by Erica
Examples
- No, she said softly, laughing at his sudden quickness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- With wonderful quickness, and with a strength both of will and action, that appeared quite supernatural, he forced all these changes upon him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I never could, even in forming a common acquaintance, assert or prove a claim to average quickness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They had never seen such quickness. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- No, no--oh, not there,' replied Job, with a quickness very unusual to him, 'not there. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Her quickness anticipated what I might have said presently but as yet had only thought. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Till this moment I had listened with living joy--I had answered with gleeful quickness; a name froze me; three words struck me mute. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They must begin with some quickness of sight and hand, and exercise improves them. Jane Austen. Emma.
- As she charged, Kulonga unslung his bow and fitted an arrow with almost unthinkable quickness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- With the quickness of thought, he follows Sir Leicester Dedlock's look towards a little box upon a table. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Yes, I always say so,' Mrs. Gradgrind cried, with unexpected quickness. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Indeed, it demanded from him a constant attention, and a quickness of eye and hand, very like that exacted by wicket-keeping. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Topsy was smart and energetic in all manual operations, learning everything that was taught her with surprising quickness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He has sense enough and quickness enough; he likes being on the land, and it's my belief that he could learn business well if he gave his mind to it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Perhaps not,' said Fascination Fledgeby, with great quickness of repartee; 'but I expect it will be devilish warm to-morrow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Jimmy