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.