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quickness

N ความเร็ว swiftness speed haste kwam-reo

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUICKNESS

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

QUICKNESS

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.

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

quickness

quick ness /kwɪ́knəs /名詞 U (動き頭の回転の )すばやさ, 迅速 ; 短気 .