Quickness

Quick·ness

Quickness

n.
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. [Obs.]
    Touch it with thy celestial quickness.
  2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.
    This deed . . . must send thee hence With fiery quickness.
    His mind had, indeed, great quickness and vigor.
  3. Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
    Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience to an animal that must lie still ?
  4. Sharpness; pungency of taste.