Definition for QUICK'NESS

QUICK'NESS, n.

  1. Speed; velocity; celerity; rapidity; as, the quickness of motion.
  2. Activity; briskness; promptness; as, the quickness of the imagination or wit. Wotton. Dryden.
  3. Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility; as, quickness of sensation. Locke.
  4. Sharpness; pungency. Mortimer.

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