quickness [
'kwɪknɪs]
n. 急速, 迅速, 速度
quickness[ noun ]- skillful performance or ability without difficulty
<noun.cognition>
his quick adeptness was a product of good design
he was famous for his facility as an archer
- intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay
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- a rate that is rapid
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Quickness \Quick"ness\, n.
1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.
[Obs.]
Touch it with thy celestial quickness. --Herbert.
2. 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.
3. Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience
to an animal that must lie still ? --Locke
4. Sharpness; pungency of taste. --Mortimer.
Syn: Velocity; celerity; rapidity; speed; haste; expedition;
promptness; dispatch; swiftness; nimbleness; fleetness;
agility; briskness; liveliness; readiness; sagacity;
shrewdness; shrewdness; sharpness; keenness.
- Though an animal of surprising quickness and speed, the buffalo has never been as challenging as, say, whitetail deer.
- For his part, Judge Souter is a Harvard Law School graduate and former Rhodes Scholar, and he is lauded by New Hampshire lawyers for his keen legal mind and his quickness in oral arguments.
- People interpret the quickness as being aggressive."
- And she suggests that compensatory skills are developed in body and mind to make up for loss of quickness or dexterity.
- President Bush's quickness in dealing with the savings and loan crisis, which is felt most acutely in Texas, met with praise Monday from several of the state's troubled thrifts.
- At 41, the next vice president is an ardent conservative who is praised by some for his quickness and derided by others as a lightweight whose best assets are his blond good looks and capacity to charm.