Promptness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Promptness \Prompt"ness\, n.
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     1. Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action.
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     2. Cheerful willingness; alacrity.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  promptness
       n 1: the characteristic of doing things without delay [syn: {promptitude}]
       2: the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time [syn:
          {punctuality}] [ant: {tardiness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "promptness":
     OK, abruptness, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, acuity,
     acuteness, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agility,
     agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, air speed, alacrity,
     alertness, amenability, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite,
     approbation, approval, ardor, assent, attention, attentiveness,
     avidity, avidness, aye, blessing, breathless impatience,
     brightness, briskness, celerity, cheerful consent,
     cheerful readiness, compliance, connivance, consent,
     cooperativeness, decisiveness, dispatch, docility, eagerness, elan,
     endorsement, enthusiasm, expedition, expeditiousness, fastness,
     favorable disposition, favorableness, feverishness, flight, flit,
     flurry, forwardness, furiousness, gameness, goodwill, ground speed,
     gust, gusto, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, immediacy,
     immediateness, impatience, impetuosity, impetuousness,
     impulsiveness, instantaneousness, keen desire, keenness, knots,
     life, lightning speed, liveliness, miles per hour, nimbleness,
     okay, permission, pliability, pliancy, precipitance, precipitancy,
     precipitation, precipitousness, promptitude, punctuality,
     punctualness, quickness, rapidity, rashness, ratification,
     readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity,
     responsiveness, right mood, round pace, rpm, rush, sanction,
     sharpness, sleeplessness, smartness, snappiness, speed, speediness,
     spirit, spryness, submission, suddenness, summariness, swift rate,
     swiftness, tractability, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance,
     velocity, verve, vitality, vivacity, wakefulness, willing ear,
     willing heart, willingness, zeal, zealousness, zest, zestfulness