| NOUN | cognition | quickness, adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility | skillful performance or ability without difficulty |
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| cognition | quickness, mental quickness, quick-wittedness | intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay | |
| attribute | quickness, celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness | a rate that is rapid |
| Sounds | kwih'knahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | Skillful performance or ability without difficulty. | |
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| Synonyms | adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility | |
| Narrower | dexterity, manual dexterity, sleight | adroitness in using the hands |
| touch | deftness in handling matters | |
| Broader | skillfulness | The state of being cognitively skillful |
| Spanish | destreza, habilidad, maño | |
| Adjectives | quick | moving quickly and lightly |
| Meaning | intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay. | |
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| Synonyms | mental quickness, quick-wittedness | |
| Broader | intelligence | The ability to comprehend |
| Spanish | agudeza, prontitud, rapidez mental, rapidez | |
| Adjectives | quick | apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity / sensitivity |
| Meaning | A rate that is rapid. | |
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| Synonyms | celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness | |
| Narrower | dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness | The property of being prompt and efficient |
| fleetness | rapidity of movement | |
| immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy | The quickness of action or occurrence | |
| promptness, promptitude | The characteristic / characteristic of doing things without delay | |
| Broader | pace, rate | The relative speed of progress or change |
| Spanish | celeridad, rapidez | |
| Catalan | celeritat, rapidesa | |
| Adjectives | quick | moving quickly and lightly |
| quick | easily aroused or excited | |
| quick | accomplished / accomplished rapidly and without delay | |
| quick | performed with little or no delay | |
| quick | hurried and brief | |
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