quick-handedness
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.55 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This is an interesting trick, but I include it with some reluctance because it requires one very quick-handed juggler, and since quick-handedness and klutziness are not often associated, this might create a problem."
- "He is known to steal from the Treasury, but so far he has not been caught because of his quick-handedness."
- "It was a scene where Fagin was counting money on a table, very quickly sorting these coins into piles and slapping them down on the surface so that, as well as being a mesmerising piece of quick-handedness, the whole routine had this brilliant noise and rhythm to it — chik-chik-chik-chik, slap! chik-chik-chik-chik, slap! Superb."
Etymology
From quick-handed + -ness.