The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. [Obs.] Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert.
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.
Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility. Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience to an animal that must lie still Locke
Sharpness; pungency of taste. Mortimer.
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