quickness
How fast something moves
Quickness is the quality of being fast or rapid.
It can refer to physical speed—quickness of foot—or mental agility: His quickness in grasping new concepts impressed everyone.
The word emphasizes responsiveness and immediacy rather than sustained velocity: a boxer's quickness, the quickness of a retort.
Directed rate of motion
- rapiditySwiftness of movement
- swiftnessQuickness of motion
- accelerationRate velocity changes
- paceSpeed of movement
briskness · tempo · fleetness · fastness · celerity · promptness · expedience · dispatch
Ease of quick movement
- dexteritySkillful hand coordination
- reflexesAutomatic physical responses
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- light-footednessQuality of moving softly
maneuverability · balance · flexibility · reaction time · evasiveness · dodging · pivoting · sidestepping
Pressing need for action
- rushQuick sudden movement
- hurryMove with urgency
- rashnessImprudent haste in action
- impulsivenessActing without forethought
impatience · precipitation · hastiness · impetuosity · recklessness · snap judgment · knee-jerk · scramble
Keenness of edge, mind, or image
- clevernessMental quickness and skill
- reparteeQuick, clever conversation
- mental agilityQuick, flexible thinking
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
brilliance · astuteness · keenness · perceptiveness · incisiveness · comeback · banter · wordplay
velocity
Directed rate of motion
- rapiditySwiftness of movement
- swiftnessQuickness of motion
- accelerationRate velocity changes
pace · briskness · tempo · fleetness · fastness · celerity · promptness · expedience · dispatch · instantaneousness
nimbleness
Ease of quick movement
- dexteritySkillful hand coordination
- reflexesAutomatic physical responses
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
light-footedness · maneuverability · balance · flexibility · reaction time · evasiveness · dodging · pivoting · sidestepping · feinting
urgency
Pressing need for action
impulsiveness · impatience · precipitation · hastiness · impetuosity · recklessness · snap judgment · knee-jerk · scramble · hustle
sharpness
Keenness of edge, mind, or image
- clevernessMental quickness and skill
- reparteeQuick, clever conversation
- mental agilityQuick, flexible thinking
intelligence · brilliance · astuteness · keenness · perceptiveness · incisiveness · comeback · banter · wordplay · improvisation
- mental skillsmemory, intelligence, focus, concentration, reasoning
- maneuverabilityagility, nimbleness, handling, responsiveness, control
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- skillsskills, skill, ability, abilities, competencies
- speedspeed, rate, velocity, pace, swiftness
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
quicknessslowness
Absence of quickness
sluggishness · pokiness · leisureliness · unhurriedness · gradualness
quicknessdullness
Lack of stimulation
slow-wittedness · obtuseness · denseness · stupidity · dimness
quicknessslowness
Absence of quickness
delay · hesitation · lateness · tardiness · procrastination
- with a quicknessAt high speed
quick, quickly, quicken, quicksand, quickest, quicker, quick-witted, quickening, quickened