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Definition: Quickness |
QuicknessNoun1. Skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer". 2. Intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay. 3. A rate that is rapid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "quickness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
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Mining | The property of an explosive by virtue of which it exerts a sharp blow or shattering effect on the material with which it is in contact. The quickest explosive of the dynamite class is the 60% straight dynamite. Quick explosives are the ones particularly desired for mudcapping. For maximum effect for this purpose, they should be of high density andsensitiveness. See also:quick. (references) |
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Synonyms: QuicknessSynonyms: adeptness (n), adroitness (n), celerity (n), deftness (n), facility (n), mental quickness (n), quick-wittedness (n), rapidity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Nimbleness, agility; smartness, quickness; Adjective: velocity; alacrity, promptitude; despatch, dispatch; expedition; haste; punctuality; (early). |
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Crosswords: Quickness |
| English words defined with "quickness": agilely ♦ black mamba, bright ♦ clear ♦ Dendroaspis augusticeps ♦ immediacy, immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness ♦ Nasutness, nimbly ♦ percipient ♦ resolute, restiveness ♦ skittishness, smart, Speed pulley ♦ To make haste ♦ unhesitating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "quickness": Con Spirito. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "quickness": Nasutness. (references) |
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Lyrics | With the quickness, talk with the witnesses ("Men in Black"; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "An explosion was averted by their quickness." Halftoned artwork by Bacon, depicting Robert Penn's heroism during a fireroom accident on board USS Iowa on 20 July 1898, during the Spanish-American War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in that incident. Credit: NAVY. |
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 | Squeal; rev; high-speed; rushing; bustle; celerity; commotion; dash; dispatch; drive; expedition; expeditiousness; flurry; haste; precipitance; precipitateness; precipitation; promptitude; push; quickness; rush; rustle; scurry; speediness; swiftness; urge. | | Squeal; rev; high-speed; rushing; bustle; celerity; commotion; dash; dispatch; drive; expedition; expeditiousness; flurry; haste; precipitance; precipitateness; precipitation; promptitude; push; quickness; rush; rustle; scurry; speediness; swiftness; urge. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | A little quickness of voice there is which rather hurts the ear. |
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Health | The quickness with which some practitioners prescribe medications may decrease the likelihood that more educationally relevant interventions will be sought. (references) | |
For example, physicians will note whether the symptoms appear on both sides of the body (most common in Guillain-Barrè ) and the quickness with which the symptoms appear (in other disorders, muscle weakness may progress over months rather than days or weeks). (references) | ||
Economic History | Czech Republic | Its leaders, Husak and party chief Milos Jakes, resigned in December 1989, and Havel was elected President of Czechoslovakia on December 29. The astonishing quickness of these events was in part due to the unpopularity of the communist regime and changes in the policies of its Soviet guarantor as well as to the rapid, effective organization of these public initiatives into a viable opposition. (references) |
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| "Quickness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Quickness" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 37 | 56,631 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "quickness": mental quickness. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
quickness | 13 |
quickness drill | 10 |
quickness training | 6 |
speed quickness | 5 |
speed agility quickness | 4 |
basketball drill quickness | 4 |
improve quickness | 4 |
speed quickness training | 4 |
increase quickness | 3 |
drill quickness speed | 3 |
foot quickness | 3 |
improving quickness | 2 |
exercise quickness | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "quickness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpejtësi (career, celerity, despatch, dispatch, flow, haste, legerity, lick, momentum, pace, promptitude, rapidity, rate, speed, swiftness, tearing hurry, velocity), mprehtësi (acuity, acumen, acuteness, clairvoyance, discernment, edge, insight, penetration, perspicacity, poignancy, resourcefulness, salt, sharpness, subtlety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سرعة (alacrity, blast, career, despatch, dispatch, expedition, gait, haste, hastiness, hurry, lick, pace, pizzazz, promptitude, promptness, rapidity, smartness, speed, spurt, swiftness, tilt, velocity), عجلة (expedition, haste, hurry, promptitude, urgency, wheel), ذكاء (brain, brilliance, brilliancy, cleverness, cuteness, intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind, penetration, sagacity, savvy, shrewdness, smartness, understanding, wit), رشاقة (agility, alacrity, deftness, fluency, fluidity, gracefulness, graciousness, lightness, liveliness, nimbleness, readiness, sleight of hand, swiftness, thinness), دقة في السمع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бързина (agility, celerity, dispatch, expedition, fastness, haste, hastiness, lick, precipitance, promptitude, rapidity, readiness, speed, swiftness), пъргавина (activity, alacrity, alertness, deftness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 快速 (FAST, SWIFT). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ukvapenost (temerity), rychlost (celerity, despatch, dispatch, gear, pace, rapidity, speed, speediness, swiftness, tempo, velocity), dùvtip (perspicacity, sconce, wit), bystrost (acumen, brightness, smartness, subtlety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vikkelyys (swiftness), ripeys (briskness), pikaiisuus (hastiness), nopeus (rapidity, speed, swiftness), joutuisuus (promptness, speediness, swiftness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vivacité, vitesse, rapidité, finesse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schnelligkeit (liveliness, nippiness, promptness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness), schnelle (speed, swiftly), raschheit (hastiness, rapidity, rashness, swiftness), geschwindigkeit (celerity, going, haste, pace, rate, speed, swiftness, tempo, velocity), behendigkeit (agility, nimbleness, swiftness), aufgewecktheit (alertness, brightness, liveliness, sharpness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ταχύτησ (abruptness, fleetness, promptitude, rapidity, rapidness, speed, swiftness, tempo, velocity), ταχύτητα (celerity, fastness, fleetness, gear, promptitude, rapidity, rapidness, speed, swiftness, tempo, velocity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ"ירות (celerity, haste, lick, licking, pelt, promptitude, rapidity, rush, speed, swiftness, velocity), קלילות (lightness), חיש" (celerity, haste, hurry, swiftness), זריזות (agility, alertness, dexterity, expedition, facility, knack, liveliness, nimbleness, pep, pertness, skill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyorsaság (agility, celerity, expedition, fastness, haste, hastiness, pace, promptitude, promptness, rapidity, rapidness, readiness, speed, swiftness, velocity), élénkség (animation, dash, exhilaration, friskiness, gaiety, ginger, go, liveliness, mercuriality, movement, pep, snap, sprightliness, vivacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vivacit (animation, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, briskness, jauntiness, liveliness, sharpness, skittishness, sparkle, sprightliness, vivacity, vividness), sveltezza (agility, briskness, deftness, nimbleness, speed, swiftness), rapidita', prontezza, rapidit (celerity, express, fluency, haste, rapidity, speed), prontezza (aptitude, expedition, fluency, promptness, readiness, sharpness, smartness), lestezza (deftness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 敏速 (activity, agility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | び"そく (activity, agility), び"かつ (alacrity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tappeeys (rapidity, speed), tappeeid (rapidity, speed), leahys (promptness, rate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | raskhet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icknessquay vivacidade (animation, bounce, brightness, color, colour, fervency, flotage, ginger, hastiness, life, liveliness, mettle, nimbleness, quicksilver, raciness, readiness, snap, verve, vivacity, warmth), velocidade (fastness, impetus, milage, mileage, speed, velocity), rapidez (celerity, despatch, dispatch, expedition, fastness, legerity, promptitude, rapidity, readiness, speed, velocity), perspicácia (acuity, acumen, acuteness, aptitude, astuteness, clairvoyance, discernment, insight, perspicacity, sagacity, vision, wit), atividade (action, activeness, activity, ado, agency, alacrity, busyness, drive, game, go-ahead, hustle, industry, liveliness, operation, work, works). (various references) vioiciune (alacrity, alertness, briskness, buoyancy, fizz, fling, go, hoity toity, jazz, life, liveliness, perkiness, pertness, snap, sprightliness, vivacity), sprintenealã (agility, nimbleness), repeziciune (celerity, rapidity, speed), pripã (haste, hastiness, hurry, rush), iuţealã (celerity, heat, pungency, rapidity, snap, speed, velocity), isteţime (adroitness, cleverness, cunning, cuteness, sharpness, smartness), grabã (cursoriness, dispatch, expedition, forwardness, haste, hastiness, hurry, pelt, press, rapture, readiness, rush, scamper, speed), deşteptãciune (cleverness, intelligence), bruscheţe (gruffness, rudeness, suddenness, unexpectedness), agerime (alacrity, discernment, edge, perspicacity, sharpness, subtlety, wit). (various references) быстрота (agileness, agility, celerity, despatch, dispatch, expedition, legerity, promptitude, promptness, rapidity, rapidness, rate, speed, swiftness, velocity). (various references) luathas (speed, swiftness). (various references) hitrost (agility), bistrina (brightness, clearness, cleverness, limpidity, sagacity), živost (liveliness, smartness, vibrancy, vividness). (various references) prontitud (alacrity, despatch, dispatch, promptitude, promptness, rapidity, rapidness, readiness, speed, speeding, velocity). (various references) snabbhet (adroitness, celerity, fastness, promptitude, rapidity, readiness, swiftness), flyhänthet (deftness, facility). (various references) ความเร็ว (celerity). (various references) zindelik (crispness, green, heartiness, spiritedness), tez canlılık (impetuosity, restlessness), sürat (career, celerity, clip, promptitude, promptness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness, velocity), kolay sinirlenme, keskinlik (acridity, acuity, acuteness, bite, bitter, bitterness, edge, intension, keenness, mordacity, mordancy, penetration, piquancy, poignancy, pointedness, pungency, sharpness, tartness, trenchancy, virulence), hassaslık (delicacy, emotionality, passibility, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment, squeamishness, susceptibility, tenderness), hızlı olma (promptitude, promptness, speed, speediness), hız (bat, career, celerity, dispatch, expedition, haste, impetus, lick, pace, pelt, raciness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, swiftness, tilt, velocity), canlılık (alacrity, animation, bounce, brightness, brio, buoyancy, color, colour, crispness, dynamics, elan, exhilaration, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, perkiness, raciness, richness, saturation, spiritedness, sprightliness, stamina, stir, verve, vivacity, vividness), çabukluk (celerity, expedition, fastness, haste, lightness, nimbleness, promptitude, promptness, readiness, speed, speediness, swiftness), çabuk parlama (inflammability). (various references) зaltlyk (rapidity, swiftness), зalasynlyk (agility). (various references) швидкість (agility, celerity, dispatch, fastness, gait, legerity, lightness, promptitude, rapidity, speed, swiftness, tempo, velocity), кмітливість (acumen, acuteness, apprehension, aptitude, aptness, brightness, gumption, headpiece, intelligence, nimbleness, nous, pregnancy, prehension, quick wits, sagacity, savvy, sharpness, understanding), гострота (acridity, acrimony, acuity, acumen, acuteness, pepper, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, savor, savour, sharpness, subtlety), жвавість (agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, liveliness, mercuriality, nimbleness, oomph, sparkle, starch, tightness, verve, vigor, vigour, vivacity). (various references) sự nhanh (cursoriness, swiftness), sự mau chóng sự tinh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | agilitate, alacritas, celeritas, celeritate, celeritatem. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "quickness": quicknesses. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "quickness" (pronounced kwi"knus) |
| 5 | -i" k n u s | sickness, thickness. |
| 4 | -k n u s | blackness, bleakness, darkness, frankness, homesickness, likeness, slackness, starkness, uniqueness, weakness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blandness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, niggardliness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-n-q-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: quickens. | |
-2 letters: cinques, incuses, quicken, quinces, sequins, sickens. | |
-3 letters: census, cinque, cuisse, incuse, quicks, quince, sequin, sicken, skeins, snecks, snicks. | |
-4 letters: cines, cukes, cusks, incus, issue, kines, necks, neuks, nicks, nisus, nukes, quick, quins, sices, sicks, sikes, since, sines, sinks, sinus, skein, skies, skins, sneck, snick, snuck, sucks. | |
-5 letters: cess, cine, cues, cuke, cusk, cuss. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-n-q-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: quicknesses. | |
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