quickness

Other forms of quickness

plural

quicknesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quickness

What does quickness mean?

quickness means "skillful performance or ability without difficulty". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quickness?

quickness has 2 syllables: quick-ness. The stress falls on "quick". In IPA it is /ˈkwɪknəs/.

What is another word for quickness?

Close synonyms include adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, mental quickness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quickness a common word?

quickness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.