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BRISKNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does briskness mean?
• BRISKNESS (noun)
The noun BRISKNESS has 1 sense:
1. liveliness and eagerness
Familiarity information: BRISKNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Liveliness and eagerness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
alacrity; briskness; smartness
Context example:
the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him
Hypernyms ("briskness" is a kind of...):
life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)
Derivation:
brisk (quick and energetic)
Context examples
His air and voice recovered their usual briskness: he shook her heartily and gratefully by the hand, and entered on the subject in a manner to prove, that he now only wanted time and persuasion to think the engagement no very bad thing.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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