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Definitions for Quickness

[1] done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
[2] that is over or completed within a short interval of time: a quick shower.
[3] moving, or able to move, with speed: a quick fox; a quick train.
[4] swift or rapid, as motion: a quick flick of the wrist.
[5] easily provoked or excited; hasty: a quick temper.
[6] keenly responsive; lively; acute: a quick wit.
[7] acting with swiftness or rapidity: a quick worker.
[8] prompt or swift to do something: quick to respond.
[9] prompt to perceive; sensitive: a quick eye.
[10] prompt to understand, learn, etc.; of ready intelligence: a quick student.
[11] (of a bend or curve) sharp: a quick bend in the road.
[12] consisting of living plants: a quick pot of flowers.
[13] brisk, as fire, flames, heat, etc.
[14] Archaic . endowed with life. having a high degree of vigor, energy, or activity.
[15] living persons: the quick and the dead.
[16] the tender, sensitive flesh of the living body, especially that under the nails: nails bitten down to the quick.
[17] the vital or most important part.
[18] Chiefly British . a line of shrubs or plants, especially of hawthorn, forming a hedge. a single shrub or plant in such a hedge.
[19] quickly.
[20] cut to the quick , to injure deeply; hurt the feelings of: Their callous treatment cut her to the quick.
[21] (of an action, movement, etc) performed or occurring during a comparatively short time a quick move
[22] lasting a comparatively short time; brief a quick flight
[23] accomplishing something in a time that is shorter than normal a quick worker
[24] characterized by rapidity of movement; swift or fast a quick walker
[25] immediate or prompt a quick reply
[26] (postpositive) eager or ready to perform (an action) quick to criticize
[27] responsive to stimulation; perceptive or alert; lively a quick eye
[28] eager or enthusiastic for learning a quick intelligence
[29] easily excited or aroused a quick temper
[30] skilfully swift or nimble in one's movements or actions; deft quick fingers
[31] archaic alive; living (as noun) living people (esp in the phrase the quick and the dead )
[32] archaic , or dialect lively or eager a quick dog
[33] (of a fire) burning briskly
[34] composed of living plants a quick hedge
[35] dialect (of sand) lacking firmness through being wet
[36] quick with child archaic pregnant, esp being in an advanced state of pregnancy, when the movements of the fetus can be felt
[37] any area of living flesh that is highly sensitive to pain or touch, esp that under a toenail or fingernail or around a healing wound
[38] the vital or most important part (of a thing)
[39] short for quickset (def. 1)
[40] cut someone to the quick to hurt someone's feelings deeply; offend gravely
[41] in a rapid or speedy manner; swiftly
[42] soon I hope he comes quick
[43] a command requiring the hearer to perform an action immediately or in as short a time as possible

Words related to Quickness

quickagility, speed, acumen, dexterity, rapidity, velocity, fleetness, celerity, haste, expedition, facility, dispatch, pace, alacrity, briskness

Words nearby Quickness

quickquiberon, quiche, quiche lorraine, quichua, quiché, quick, quick and the dead, quick as a wink, quick assets, quick bread, quick draw

Origin of Quickness

before 900; Middle English quik lively, moving, swift; Old English cwic, cwicu living; cognate with Old Saxon quik, German queck, keck, Old Norse kvikr; akin to Latin vīvus living (see vital), Sanskrit jivas living, Greek bíos life (see bio-), zoḗ animal life (see zoo-)

Words that may be confused with Quickness

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, quickfast, quick, rapid, swift, (see, synonym, study, at, the, current, entry), quick, quickly, (see, usage, note, at, the, current, entry)

Other words from Quickness

quick·ness , noun
un·quick , adjective
un·quick·ly , adverb
un·quick·ness , noun

Word origin for Quickness

Old English cwicu living; related to Old Saxon quik, Old High German queck, Old Norse kvikr alive, Latin vīvus alive, Greek bios life

Synonyms for Quickness

agility, speed, celerity, fleetness, haste