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Noun: quickness  kwik-nus
  1. Skilful performance or ability without difficulty
    - adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility
     
  2. Intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay
    - mental quickness, quick-wittedness
     
  3. A rate that is rapid
    - celerity [archaic], rapidity, rapidness, speediness

Type of: intelligence, pace, rate, skilfulness [Brit, Cdn], skillfulness [N. Amer]

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