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PROMPTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does promptness mean? 

PROMPTNESS (noun)
  The noun PROMPTNESS has 2 senses:

1. the characteristic of doing things without delayplay

2. the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed timeplay

  Familiarity information: PROMPTNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROMPTNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The characteristic of doing things without delay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

promptitude; promptness

Hypernyms ("promptness" is a kind of...):

celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a rate that is rapid)

Derivation:

prompt (performed with little or no delay)

prompt (ready and willing or quick to act)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

promptness; punctuality

Hypernyms ("promptness" is a kind of...):

timing (the time when something happens)

Derivation:

prompt (according to schedule or without delay; on time)


 Context examples 


His life depended upon my promptness.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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