English
Etymology
From Middle English quiknes, qwiknes, quyknesse, cwicnesse, equivalent to quick + -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwɪknəs/
- Rhymes: -ɪknəs
Noun
quickness (countable and uncountable, plural quicknesses)
- rapidity of movement or activity; agility or dexterity
The quickness of the hand deceives the eye.
Derived terms
Translations
rapidity of movement or activity
- Bulgarian: бързина (bg) f (bǎrzina)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 迅速 (zh) (xùnsù)
- Esperanto: rapideco
- Finnish: nopeus (fi), vikkelyys (fi)
- French: rapidité (fr) f
- Georgian: სიჩქარე (sičkare), სისწრაფე (sisc̣rape)
- German: Schnelligkeit (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: τάχος n (tákhos), ταχυτής f (takhutḗs), ὠκυτής f (ōkutḗs)
- Hungarian: gyorsaság (hu)
- Ido: rapideso (io)
- Irish: éascaíocht f, aibéil f
- Italian: rapidità (it) f
- Japanese: 速さ (ja) (はやさ, hayasa)
- Latvian: ašums m
- Macedonian: бр́зина f (bŕzina)
- Old English: hrædnes f
- Plautdietsch: Schwindichkjeit f
- Polish: prędkość (pl) f
- Portuguese: rapidez (pt) f
- Russian: быстрота́ (ru) f (bystrotá), стреми́тельность (ru) f (stremítelʹnostʹ)
- Sanskrit: जव (sa) m (java), जुवस् (sa) n (juvas)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хи̏тро̄ст f
- Roman: hȉtrōst (sh) f
- Spanish: rapidez (es) f, festinación (es) f, celeridad (es) f, priesa (es) f
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