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Quickness

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

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Despatch 76% connected

Same as Dispatch.

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Dexterity 76% connected

Right-handedness.

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Dispatch 76% connected

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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Expedition 76% connected

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

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Fleetness 76% connected

Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

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Immediacy 76% connected

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.

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Immediateness 76% connected

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.

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Instancy 76% connected

Instance; urgency.

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Promptitude 76% connected

The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience.

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Promptness 76% connected

Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action.

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Sleight 76% connected

Cunning; craft; artful practice.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Intelligence 76% connected

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

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Pace 76% connected

A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

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Rate 76% connected

To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

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Fast 74% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

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Fast 74% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

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Quick 74% connected

Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

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Quick 74% connected

Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

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Synonym 9

Adeptness 92% connected

The quality of being adept; skill.

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Adroitness 92% connected

The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.

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Celerity 92% connected

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

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Deftness 92% connected

The quality of being deft.

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Facility 92% connected

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

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Quick-wittedness 92% connected

Readiness of wit.

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Rapidity 92% connected

The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvem…

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Rapidness 92% connected

Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

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Speediness 92% connected

The quality or state of being speedy.

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