Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Quickness

Quickness , noun

1.
The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. [Obsolete]
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. — Shakespeare
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