Quickness, speed, rapidity; suddenness. Now rare.

Due promptness. Obsolete.

The fact of happening, or acting, without delay; promptitude; †haste, rashness.

The quality of being quick to act; immediateness or promptitude in action or movement.

Suddenness, sharpness; lack of warning or preparation.

Immediateness, instantaneity. rare.

The condition of being immediate in time (see immediate, adj. 4).

The quality or condition of being immediate; immediacy; directness (of action, thought, relation, etc.); absolute (or in loose use, relative)…