briskness
- agility n.
- alacrity n.
- animation n.
- celerity n.
- diligence n.
- expeditiousness n.
- haste n.
- hastiness n.
- hurriedness n.
- industriousness n.
- liveliness n.
- liveliness n.
- precipitance n.
- precipitancy n.
- precipitateness n.
- quickness n.
- rapidity n.
- rapidness n.
- sedulousness n.
- speed n.
- speediness n.
- swiftness n.
Example Sentences
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Washington led the most active of lives, and the author surveys it with a briskness that makes this biography feel much shorter than it is.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
It ultimately undercuts a narrative whose strongest suit has always been its briskness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
Yes, his eventual shot went in off Fabian Schar, but the briskness and intensity of Scotland’s counter was electrifying.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024
Parachuting into families with a spit-spot on-the-double briskness, Maier was inevitably compared to Mary Poppins or, zooming around on her moped, the Wicked Witch of the West.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
To which the Aged replied with great briskness, before saying that he gave, “All right, John, all right, my boy!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
